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Why icebergs break away from glaciers

The Fundamental Physics Behind Ice Calving Ice calving, also known as glacier calving or iceberg calving, is the breaking of ...
The Doomsday Glacier is at the center of a striking new discovery hidden deep under Antarctica’s frozen edge. For the first ...
The world’s largest and most enduring iceberg is splintering into smaller pieces, to the point that it’s no longer the biggest chunk of ice floating in the oceans. EPA eliminates mention of fossil ...
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Ocean tides can trigger city-sized icebergs to break off from Antarctic ice shelves, scientists said on Thursday, offering a potential way to predict these dramatic events in the future. It is not ...
In downtown Chicago, the artist duo Luftwerk has created a public sound piece that evokes the calving of Antartica's Larsen C ice shelf. The sound flows from four speakers that perch on the ...
Tourists in Iceland were met by the unexpected scene of an iceberg calving during a tour of the Jökulsárlón glacier lagoon. The dramatic moment was captured in a viral video posted by @sabrina.gss and ...
The world's biggest iceberg, A23a, ran aground earlier this year near a remote island - Copyright US District Court for the Southern District of New York/AFP/File ...
There's a video going around of a glacier splitting apart in Greenland. It's super cool to see in a very Planet Earth kind of way, but it's also pretty important. Here's why. OK, but How Big Are We ...
An ice chunk twice the size of Manhattan broke off of Greenland last week, in another sign of Arctic warming. The 46-square-mile piece of the Petermann Glacier in Greenland “calved” away from the ...