A team of researchers attempted to drill into Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica to understand the impact of warm ocean water below.

A high-risk mission to Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica's "doomsday glacier," faced setbacks as instruments became trapped deep ...

A team hopes to place instruments in the waters beneath the colossal Thwaites Glacier, with the help of a drill that uses hot ...

Scientists lost their instruments within Antarctica’s most dangerously unstable glacier, though not before getting a glimpse at the warming waters underneath.

Researchers from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and South Korea (KOPRI) have concluded a highly ambitious field operation ...

After working and camping for a week on Thwaites Glacier, scientists were ready to start drilling into the ice, if only the ...

By contrast, obtaining continuous cores from the Antarctic interior typically requires drilling to depths of more than 2,000 meters. "We're still working out the exact conditions that allow such ...

European scientists opened the Ice Memory Sanctuary in Antarctica, preserving glacier ice cores to study past climate, track environmental change, and safeguard disappearing glaciers for future ...

A four-year record from the heart of the Ross Ice Shelf shows how subtle changes could shape future sea level rise, ocean ...