A glacier that had held a mountainside steady for millennia retreated just enough to expose unstable rock, and on August 10, ...

The Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica, often called the “Doomsday Glacier,” is showing signs of growing instability and is moving closer to a potential large-scale collapse. Scientists have observed that ...

A quiet region at the eastern Antarctic Peninsula carries a narrative that can seem unnervingly personal if you have witnessed something in your life collapse faster than you were prepared for. In ...

MILAN (Reuters) - Part of a glacier on Mont Blanc, Europe's highest mountain, is at risk of collapse, prompting Italian authorities to close roads and evacuate Alpine hamlets and the prime minister to ...

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The second largest tsunami in history struck an Alaska fjord after a mountain slope suddenly collapsed in the Tracy Arm ...

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 ...

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The New York Times went on an expedition to study Antarctica’s fastest-thinning glaciers. CreditCredit...Chang W. Lee/The New York Times For much of January and February, Raymond Zhong, a New York ...

On October 25, a massive chunk of glacier broke away from the Ismoil Somoni Peak in Tajikistan’s Tajikabad district and thundered down the mountain. The ice mass – two kilometers long, 150-200 meters ...