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Hundreds of iceberg earthquakes detected at the crumbling end of Antarctica’s Doomsday Glacier
Copernicus / ESA, CC BY Thanh-Son Pham, Australian National University Glacial earthquakes are a special type of earthquake…
Study Warns of “Short Pulses” of Rapid Ice Sheet Retreat In Response to Climate Warming
According to an international study published in Nature, ice sheets can retreat up to 600 m per day…
The Thwaites Glacier Poses a Threat to Coastal Cities Should It Collapse. Who’s At RIsk?
The Antarctic glacier called Thwaites Glacier is nicknamed the “Doomsday Glacier” for a reason: should it collapse, it…