The Fundamental Physics Behind Ice Calving Ice calving, also known as glacier calving or iceberg calving, is the breaking of ice chunks from the edge of a glacier. It is a form of ice ablation or ice ...

A village buried by a landslide, the world’s largest tidal bore and the aftermath of ferocious storms and wildfires appear in ...

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Geologist Peter Malin and his former graduate student, Allen Hunt, suggest that the growing weight of the ice sheet would have triggered quakes by causing periodic crustal failure along what is now ...

The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has warned that two massive icebergs could pose a threat to maritime shipping and the environment. One of these icebergs, which calved from the Brunt Ice Shelf in ...

For Arctic residents and a few polar addicts, icebergs are familiar. I've skied, paddled, and boated past thousands of them. But most of us have just seen photos of these beautiful ice sculptures and ...

Due to its thick, vast ice sheet, Antarctica appears to be a single, continuous landmass centered over the South Pole and ...

Researchers are using machine learning to analyze satellite radar data to detect icebergs in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica as a way to better understand their life cycle and environmental ...

A recent video of an iceberg in Los Glaciares National Park in December shows the ice slowly flipping in the water until a bright blue color is revealed. The stunning video prompted many who viewed it ...