In the remote reaches of Antarctica lies the Pine Island Glacier, a rapidly melting ice mass on the frigid continent. But beneath its icy surface, a new study has uncovered a phenomenon that could ...

The wisps of "sea smoke" blowing above the Pine Island glacier would typically be a sight obfuscated by clouds. But on Oct. 10, the U.S. Geological Survey's Landsat 8 satellite, which NASA helped ...

New insights suggest Thwaites Glacier may not pose an immediate threat despite previous warnings about rising sea levels.

Antarctica just lost another huge piece of ice. The ice broke off of Pine Island Glacier, which is the fastest melting glacier on the continent. Scientists first saw a large rift in the glacier ...

The Pine Island Glacier is one of the largest in West Antarctica, a region that is currently Antarctica’s biggest ice loser. Pine Island, which loses an extraordinary 45 billion tons of ice to ...

New radar images reveal the mighty Pine Island Glacier (PIG) to be sitting on a rugged rock bed populated by big hills, tall cliffs and deep scour marks. Such features are likely to slow the ice ...

The RV Nathaniel B Palmer passed within a few kilometres of B49, as it's been designated - the largest of a group of ice fragments ejected by Pine Island Glacier (PIG) over the weekend.

Satellite images of Pine Island Glacier taken between 2015 and 2020 show the rapid break up of the ice shelf's edge. A study by Washington University reveals the ice shelf lost about one-fifth of ...

The so-called “sea smoke,” isn’t actually smoke, it’s fog – and appears as cottony white wisps above the dark surface of the ocean water where Pine Island Glacier meets the sea in the ...

Scientists collecting shells from beach on one of the Lindsey Islands, Pine Island Bay. US R/V Nathaniel B Palmer is in the background. Photo: James Kirkham Two crucial glaciers in West Antarctica ...