If the ice melts faster than snow replenishes the glaciers, sea level rises. The Thwaites Glacier is one of many bodies of ice that are melting, but this massive, Antarctic glacier is uniquely ...

Antarctic glacier is uniquely important when it comes to sea level rise. “We’re talking about an area that’s the size of the island of Great Britain,” says Ted Scambos, a glacier scientist ...

(THE CONVERSATION) This episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast is about the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica. Thwaites is among the largest glaciers on Earth and one of the single most important ...

Preliminary measurements show the sea ice around the continent has surpassed the previous record minimum set, in March 2017, of 2.1 million square kilometers, dropping to 1.98 million square ...