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 massive slab of ice has broken away from one of Greenland’s largest remaining floating glacier tongues, creating a Manhattan-sized iceberg in the Arctic Ocean. The dramatic calving event at ...

For nearly a decade, Leigh Stearns and collaborators aimed a laser scanner system at Greenland's Helheim Glacier. Their long-running survey reveals that Helheim's massive calving events don't behave ...

Authors: Kotaro Yazawa (Hokkaido University), Shuntaro Hata (National Institute of Polar Research), Shin Sugiyama (Hokkaido ...

When massive blocks of ice detach from glaciers, it is known as calving. This process is one of the main ways that glaciers lose mass, and has long been a dramatic visualization of changes in ice ...

An enormous section of ice breaks away near Ilulissat, sending powerful pulses racing across the water.

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 ...

We can talk about warmer and wetter winters, chronic and worsening droughts, and we can discuss how extreme hurricanes and forest fires are the “new normal.” We can look at the statistics and read the ...

Following the calving of the A-81 iceberg at the end of January 2023, the Brunt Ice Shelf is moving faster than before. It is currently moving approximately 4 meters a day towards the sea, whereas ...