Topic: melting

Weddell sea landscape with sopectacular cloud formations, Antarctica (Getty Images/Andrew Peacock)

When will glaciers go extinct?

Matthew Rozsa
This undated handout photo provided by NASA shows the Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctic. Two new studies indicate that part of the huge West Antarctic ice sheet is starting a slow collapse in an unstoppable way. Alarmed scientists say that means even more sea level rise than they figured. ((AP Photo/NASA))

Sarah Gray