Antarctica’s Hektoria Glacier stunned scientists by retreating eight kilometers in just two months, with nearly half of it ...

When a chunk of ice breaks off a glacier, that’s called calving. That can happen if the glacier gets warm or some other force makes a piece split off. The end of the glacier – where the iceberg slides ...

A quiet region at the eastern Antarctic Peninsula carries a narrative that can seem unnervingly personal if you have witnessed something in your life collapse faster than you were prepared for. In ...

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 ...

Some massive changes have reportedly taken root in Antarctica. Researchers claim that ice flow has accelerated at Pine Island glacier in West Antarctica, triggering the disintegration of the ice shelf ...