Landsat 7, after 25 years, has retired, concluding a mission that provided an invaluable, consistent visual record of Earth. Its images have been crucial for understanding wildfire impacts, managing ...

They want to prevent the a-thaw-calypse. The looming demise of Antarctica’s notorious Thwaites Glacier, colloquially known as the Doomsday Glacier, could send seas rising to catastrophic heights.

When Ted Scambos visited the Arapaho Glacier in 2021, it was dramatically smaller compared to when he first saw it nearly 20 years earlier. Scambos, a University of Colorado Boulder senior research ...

A large and fast-melting glacier in West Antarctica has sped up dramatically since 2017. This may be a sign that the floating ice shelf in front of it is no longer helping to hold back the ice. Pine ...

For the first time, scientists have created a comprehensive global dataset revealing how the world’s glaciers speed up and slow down with the seasons. Published in Science in November 2025, this ...

A project that has been years in the making came to an early halt about 3,000 feet deep in the ice. Reading time 3 minutes One of Earth’s most dangerous glaciers has claimed a victim: a suite of ...

Hundreds of earthquakes have been detected rattling Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier, also known as the Doomsday Glacier — the disintegration of which could send between two and 10 feet of devastating ...

A meltwater lake that formed in the mid-1990s on Greenland’s 79°N Glacier has been draining in sudden, dramatic bursts through cracks and vertical ice shafts. These events have accelerated in recent ...

Scientists have never loved the scary nickname journalists have given the glacier where the current Antarctic expedition is headed: the “Doomsday Glacier.” Yes, the Thwaites Glacier is the size of ...

Recent research has led scientists to new conclusions about the fastest melting glacier in Antarctica. Some are reassuring, others the opposite. By Raymond Zhong Scientists have never loved the scary ...

The Thwaites Glacier, an enormous shelf of ice in the Antarctic, has been given the ominous nickname of the “Doomsday Glacier” — because if it were to change collapse, it could have profound ...