Mind-blowing footage captures one of the largest glacier-calving waves seen in years.

You may not be familiar with the term, but there’s a good chance you’ve seen ice calving for yourself. It’s when chunks of ice break off at the end of an iceberg. It looks as though someone sliced ...

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 ...

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. WHY FOLLOW? Update your preferences in Account Settings This Monday, July 16, 2012 satellite image provided by NASA shows calving, ...

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 ...

New York University professor David Holland, an expert in atmospheric and ocean science, said it is “the largest event we’ve seen in over a decade in Greenland.” Holland and his wife, Denise, who is ...

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 ...

Researchers in Greenland used a 10-kilometer fiber-optic cable to track how iceberg calving stirs up warm seawater. The resulting surface tsunamis and massive hidden underwater waves intensify melting ...

When the edge of a Greenland glacier breaks off into the sea to become an iceberg, can a global seismic network "hear" it? The answer is yes—but only if the event is a large one. And it helps to pair ...