The ice covering the newly discovered ecosystem belonged to the George VI Ice Shelf, a vast ice shelf "trapped" between the Antarctic Peninsula and Alexander Island. Earlier this ...

A creak, a thunderous roar, and then the plunge: Argentina’s Perito Moreno Glacier calves several times a day, as hundreds of ...

World Glacier Day: Trekking the Blue Ice of Perito Moreno in Argentina EL ... The event, known as calving, is a normal occurrence, said Victoria Pacheco, a tour guide in El Calafate, in Argentina ...

The event, known as calving, is a normal occurrence ... experienced guides like Pacheco report a visible decline in the glacier's ice. The glacier’s famous ice dam last formed in 2018, when ...