A quiet region at the eastern Antarctic Peninsula carries a narrative that can seem unnervingly personal if you have ...

Antarctica’s Hektoria Glacier retreated five miles in two months, 10 times as fast as the previous record, with possible implications for the pace of sea-level rise.

New research finds that Hektoria, a grounded glacier in Antarctica, shrank with astounding speed in 2022 and 2023 ...

In Antarctica, the Hektoria Glacier set a shocking record in 2023. In just two months, it receded five miles. Glaciologist Naomi Ochwat led the team that discovered the record retreat. She’s with the ...

Scientists uncover how a flat seabed triggered Hektoria Glacier’s record collapse, offering new warnings for Antarctica’s ice ...

In terms of geology, it has always been said that 1,000 year for Earth is the equivalent of one second for a human life. After all, mountains, valleys, and ...

The mind-blowing pace of retreat from the Hektoria Glacier is reminiscent of glacial retreats from the Ice Ages.

In only a few months, the glacier's edge retracted by 8 kilometers. This phenomenon marks the fastest collapse in Antarctica ...

Antarctic scientists have documented the fastest retreat of a glacier in modern history, after it lost eight kilometres of ...

Hektoria glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula lost nearly half its size astonishingly rapidly. Scientists have now discovered ...

The case began way back in 2002 with the extraordinary collapse of an ice shelf called Larsen B in the eastern Antarctic ...

A sudden, record-breaking glacier collapse in Antarctica is revealing how unseen forces beneath the ice could reshape the ...