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new video loaded: Setting Foot on the Melting Thwaites GlacierBad weather ​delayed expedition scientists’​ ​efforts to set up camp on Thwaites Glacier ​in Antarctica ​and take…

new video loaded: Camping on a Glacier? Watch Your StepExperienced Antarctica guides tell Raymond Zhong, our climate reporter, how they set up camp on the Thwaites…

new video loaded: What It Takes to Drill Into an Antarctic GlacierOur climate reporter Raymond Zhong meets with Paul Anker, a drilling engineer aboard the icebreaker…

January 7, 20264 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmHundreds of Iceberg Earthquakes Rattle Antarctica’s Doomsday GlacierCapsizing icebergs are violently clashing with the crumbling end of…

new video loaded: Why This Glacier Worries Scientists the MostOur climate reporter Raymond Zhong describes how the fast-melting Thwaites Glacier of Antarctica, is like a cork…

new video loaded: Why We Are Going to the Fastest-Melting GlacierHow much time does the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica have left? Our reporter Raymond Zhong and…

From the slopes above Pahalgam, the Kolahoi glacier is visible as a thinning, rumpled ribbon of ice stretching across the western Himalayas. Once a vast white…

Deep in California’s Sierra Nevada, massive glaciers are disappearing and projected to melt away completely by the beginning of the next century, leaving ice-free peaks for…

Newly installed river barriers held back record levels of flooding and prevented widespread damage in Alaska’s capital city on Wednesday, after an ice dam at the…

Glaciers on a remote Australian sub-Antarctic island are shrinking rapidly, losing almost a quarter of their size in just 70 years, with researchers fearing glaciers on…