West Antarctica's history of rapid melting foretells sudden shifts in continent's 'catastrophic' geology

Due to its thick, vast ice sheet, Antarctica appears to be a single, continuous landmass centered over the South Pole and ...

Inside Belvoir Castle: From crisis to The Crown - and the controversies that followed

When Emma Manners became Duchess of Rutland in 1999, she inherited a crisis. The historic Belvoir Castle estate was, in her ...

Quakes may have launched iceberg flotillas

Geologist Peter Malin and his former graduate student, Allen Hunt, suggest that the growing weight of the ice sheet would have triggered quakes by causing periodic crustal failure along what is now ...
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'Unavoidable flooding' accelerates as Antarctica’s Doomsday Glacier awakens—hundreds of ice quakes detected

Beneath Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier, hundreds of undetected earthquakes have rumbled for over a decade, signaling the ...