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 disruption. It is the sudden release and ...

Scientists have identified a new method of ice calving called slumping, and it definitely is cause for alarm. This research, published in Geology and supported by NASA, the National Science Foundation ...

It’s winter in Antarctica and direct observation of the ever-widening crack in the Larsen C ice shelf has been difficult. However, geologists with Project MIDAS, a UK-based research project, have been ...

A hunk of ice the size of Delaware broke off from the Antarctic Peninsula. Sometime in the last few days, scientists say an iceberg weighing roughly a trillion metric tons separated from the Larsen C ...

It's hard to truly appreciate the effects of climate change. We hear of a two-degree jump over the course of decades, of dwindling animal populations, and of sea levels rising inches. These effects ...