The William Glacier typically has one or two large calving events per year, and the team estimated this one broke off around 78,000 square meters of ice – around the area of 10 football pitches ...

When the A-84 iceberg calved in January, it unveiled a 209-square-mile swath of seafloor. Nearby scientists rushed to the ...

The Delft University of Technology in Netherlands, posted a satellite image showing that Pine Island had “calved,” a piece of ice about 103 sq miles in area. The rectangular piece (four times ...

Most Antarctic trips explore the western peninsula departing from South America for about 10 days. This is the most beautiful ...

It is normal for glaciers to flow and break off into icebergs. But the rate at which ice is collapsing in Antarctica is way too much to escape notice. Every second day, swathes of Antarctic ice ...

A “serendipitous” discovery offers new insights into how ecosystems can thrive beneath floating sections of the Antarctic ice ...

Unseen mountains, valleys, lakes, and rivers lie under Antarctica’s mile-thick ice sheet. Changes to those hidden rivers could have dramatic global consequences. As Totten Glacier oozes off the ...

Stanford researchers have integrated machine learning with high-resolution satellite and aerial observations to analyze the ...

A slab of ice nearly twice the size of Rhode Island state is cracking off of an Antarctic glacier, and the rift between it and the southern continent is growing longer and wider every day.

Antarctica just lost another huge piece of ice. The ice broke off of Pine Island Glacier, which is the fastest melting glacier on the continent. Scientists first saw a large rift in the glacier ...