When massive blocks of ice detach from glaciers, it is known as calving. This process is one of the main ways that glaciers lose mass, and has long been a dramatic visualization of changes in ice ...

Ocean tides can trigger city-sized icebergs to break off from Antarctic ice shelves, scientists said on Thursday, offering a potential way to predict these dramatic events in the future. It is not ...

Antarctica is losing ice quickly, in part because of climate change. Massive calving events, such as the one that formed the Delaware-sized (5,800 square kilometers, or 2,239 square miles) A-68 ...

By analyzing light shining through the same kind of cable that brings the internet into homes, researchers have helped ...

Arecent study conducted by University of Florida geologists and geographers has shed new light on the effects of climate change on Antarctic ice shelves. It found that while there has been broad ice ...

In 2021, researchers in Antarctica noticed giant cracks developing on the Brunt Ice Shelf, an enormous stretch of ice on the continent’s northwestern corner. Two years later, the fracture grew so ...

New research has for the first time tracked ice shelf, sea ice and ocean swell wave conditions over multiple years in the lead-ups to three large-scale iceberg ‘calving’ events in Antarctica, ...

Summer is the season to watch for ice loss from the outlet glaciers lining the perimeter of Greenland. JakobshavnGreenland’s fastest-moving glacieris notorious for such losses; in 2014 the glacier ...

The deep crack echoes through the Patagonian air, a prelude to the dramatic spectacle about to unfold. Seconds later, a colossal block of ice, equivalent to a 20-story building, shears off the Perito ...