A 20-year fracture cascade is destabilizing Thwaites Glacier—and may be a preview of wider Antarctic ice-shelf collapse. Credit: Shutterstock Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica -- widely known as the ...

Pine Island Glacier, one of the fastest-shrinking glaciers in Antarctica, hastened its slide into the sea between 2017 and 2020, when one-fifth of its associated ice shelf broke off as massive ...

An artificial lake building up behind the rubble left by a glacier that dramatically plunged down a Swiss mountainside, destroying a village, is beginning to drain, authorities said Friday, reducing ...

Earlier this month, officials abruptly closed the 758-meter Hongqi Bridge in Sichuan after cracks appeared in the surrounding terrain. Within a day, landslides tore through the mountainside, ...

In video footage, it almost looks like an earthquake. The ancient Torre dei Conti, which has occupied a street corner of central Rome since medieval times, is suddenly enveloped in billowing clouds as ...

A 12-year-old girl was rescued in Texas after becoming buried in a "large hole" that she was digging in the sand, officials said. The Woodlands Fire Department outside of Houston said multiple ...

The victim was unharmed, authorities said. A father's quick-thinking and Texas emergency services' fast response saved a 12-year-old girl from Thanksgiving tragedy on Thursday, officials said. The ...

UPDATE Dec 4: Woods posted to Instagram that medical staff told her it was likely a virus. “Gosh that was a bit weird,” she wrote on the platform. “Sorry to worry everyone, I’m OK. Just need a bit of ...

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SOUTHAMPTON, England (AP) — British television presenter Laura Woods collapsed live on air Tuesday during pre-game coverage of the women's international match between England and Ghana. Footage showed ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In May 2014, NASA announced at a press conference that a portion of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet appeared to have reached a point of ...