As temperatures rise with climate change, a melting glacier in the Italian Alps triggered a devastating avalanche 1. On 3 July 2022, around 64,000 tonnes of water, ice and rock broke away from the ...

From those movements, the researchers sketch out an explanation for the glacial earthquake that resulted. As the bottom of the iceberg (soon to become its side) swung up away from the glacier and ...

A study released this week added new fears to the fate of an important glacier in Antarctica and its impact on sea-level rise. The Thwaites Glacier on the vast West Antarctica Ice Sheet is ...

Surveyor Zhang Yong (left) and colleagues operate a ground-penetrating radar device to conduct a routine observation on the Aemye Ma-chhen Glacier in Qinghai province on March 19. LI YALONG/FOR ...