The research, published in two studies Wednesday in the journal Nature, concludes that Thwaites' retreat appears to be driven by different processes beneath its floating ice shelf – which holds ...

A robot lowered through the ice reveals how the Thwaites shelf is melting, which will help forecast its effect on global sea level. The Icefin robot is lowered by cable into the ocean below the ...

The team is focusing on the 60-kilometer-wide ice shelf at the front end of the Thwaites Glacier, which extends beyond the shoreline of Antarctica and forms a 800-foot-thick floating ice shelf on the ...

The calving front of Thwaites' ice shelf. The blue area is light reflecting off ice below the water. James Yungel/NASA Icebridge ...

The findings will help assess the threat it and other ice shelves pose for long-term sea-level rise. The researchers said that overall melting of the underside of part of the Thwaites shelf in ...

University of California, Davis professor Eric Rignot just published more data he asserts support the notion that the Thwaites ice shelf is in imminent danger of self-destruction. He further ...

Antarctica’s “Doomsday Glacier” — nicknamed because its collapse could drive catastrophic sea level rise — is melting rapidly in unexpected ways, according to new research. The Thwaites ...

A large glacier in Antarctica that could raise sea levels several feet is disintegrating faster than last predicted, according to a new study published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience.

Four dozen Antarctic ice shelves have shrunk by at least 30% since 1997 and 28 of those have lost more than half of their ice in that time, reports a new study that surveyed these crucial ...

The Thwaites Ice Shelf appeared healthy on the surface. But if that were the case, Pettit wouldn't have been there. Pettit was studying defects within the ice, akin to hidden cracks in an enormous ...