Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier got its nickname, the “Doomsday Glacier”, for its potential to flood coastlines around the world if it collapsed. It is already contributing about 4 percent of ...
The Thwaites Glacier is one of the largest and fastest-moving in the world. Along with the wider region - the Amundsen Sea Embayment - it accounts for 8% of the current rate of global sea level ...
They call it the Doomsday Glacier. A chunk of Antarctic ice as big as Florida and two thirds of a mile thick, the Thwaites Glacier disgorges into the ocean in a remote region of West Antarctica.
It takes dozens of the furry beasts to help you move an entire glacier core back down to the freezer truck, each carrying about 40 feet-worth of segments of long-frozen ice on its back.
In the early hours of August 6, a lake dammed by Juneau's Mendenhall Glacier burst through the ice, flooding hundreds of homes and businesses in the Mendenhall Valley where many of the Alaskan ...
A climber who vanished early last week in Glacier National Park has been found dead after suffering an apparent fall, the National Park Service says. Grant Marcuccio, 32, of Whitefish, Montana ...
By Sara Ruberg A 35-year-old man was attacked by a bear while hiking on a popular trail in Glacier National Park in Montana on Thursday morning, the National Park Service said. The man was hiking ...
While in Alaska for a show, Ludacris posted on his social media pages a video of him drinking water from a glacier. "Half the world's glaciers are here in Alaska, I couldn't come here and just ...
A climber was found dead Sunday in Glacier National Park, after going missing a week earlier when he separated from his hiking group, officials said. Grant Marcuccio apparently fell to his death ...