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 ...

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 ...

A 1550 square km (963 sq mi.) iceberg, designated A81 broke off Antarctica’s Brunt Ice Shelf. A time-lapse of the 'calving ...

The iceberg was the result of a "calving" event that scientists had been expecting for about a decade A massive iceberg larger than New York City broke off of an ice shelf in Antarctica this week, the ...

A team of scientists has developed a new model for simulating both iceberg calving and the tsunamis that are triggered as a result. Their method can help improve hazard assessment in coastal areas and ...

Crash diet alert: Antarctica’s Brunt Ice Shelf has slimmed down by about 256 billion tons. As part of a major calving event, an iceberg nearly the size of Houston, Texas, separated from the continent ...

On a special episode (first released on February 12, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: Icebergs are bellwethers of environmental changes. Their formation, movement and melting offer insights into some of ...

Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego are eavesdropping on an Arctic glacier in the name of science. In a new study, Scripps polar scientists ...

A handout composite photo that shows the iceberg calving away from the Amery ice shelf in Antarctica EPA A giant iceberg bigger than the city of Los Angeles has broken off the Amery ice shelf in East ...

Two ominous cracks have been growing across Antarctica's Brunt Ice Shelf for years, and they're now separated by just a few miles, setting the scene for a massive ice calving event, perhaps in the ...