At the edge of Antarctica, one of the planet’s most fragile ice giants is splintering so violently that it is sending out its ...

Glacial earthquakes are a special type of earthquake generated in cold, icy regions. First discovered in the Northern ...

Antarctica’s so-called Doomsday Glacier, nicknamed because it is huge and coming apart, is mostly thwarting an international effort to figure out how dangerously vulnerable it is. A large iceberg ...

A satellite view of the iceberg. The newly escaped B-22A iceberg is circled in red. An enormous iceberg that first broke off Antarctica's "Doomsday Glacier" more than 20 years ago is finally waving ...

Glaciers could reach peak rates of disappearing in the coming decades due to global warming, according to new research.

In 2017, astrophysicists at the European Space Agency spotted something disturbing among satellite data collected by the agency's Copernicus mission: A Las Vegas-sized iceberg was breaking off the ...

A massive iceberg larger than Manhattan has broken away from the floating end of a Greenland glacier this week, an event scientists predicted last autumn. The giant ice island is 46 square miles (120 ...

To estimate the amount of ice sloughing off glaciers and falling into rising seas, scientists may simply need to listen. New research finds that sound recordings can not only capture the timing of ...

WASHINGTON - An iceberg twice the size of Manhattan tore off one of Greenland's largest glaciers, illustrating another dramatic change to the warming island. For several years, scientists had been ...

In a 15-second GIF, you can watch four-years-worth of calving events on Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier, including the most recent breakaway—an iceberg almost as big as Las Vegas. The giant berg ...

Antarctica’s so-called Doomsday Glacier, nicknamed because it is huge and coming apart, is mostly thwarting an international effort to figure out how dangerously vulnerable it is. A large iceberg ...