PERITO MORENO GLACIER, Argentina (Reuters) -The deep cracking sound bursting from within the ice signals the dramatic fall about to happen. Seconds later, a block of ice some 70 meters (230 ft) tall - ...

A West Antarctic ice shelf, splitting around a pinning point at its calving front. Credit: Pierre Dutrieux A glacier in Antarctica is committing "ice piracy"—stealing ice from a neighbor—in a ...

The glacier’s retreat has been ongoing, but scientists believe within a few years it will be separated from Mendenhall Lake.

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 ...

See Argentina’s Perito Moreno Glacier from above, one of the world’s last advancing ice fields. Located in Los Glaciares ...

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It was a very early morning in August when an entire mountainside in Alaska’s Tracy Arm fjord detached and slid into the deep ocean water beneath it.

In one of Alaska’s most remote fjords, a small crew sails through icy waters before launching paddleboards toward a massive ...

2024 is on track to be one of the warmest years, if not the warmest, in recorded history. That’s bad news for the world’s glaciers. Rising temperatures in the atmosphere and the oceans are causing ...

Breaking the ice About two hours into the journey to Eqi glacier, our boat sways noticeably. Not from a calving iceberg or large wave but due to a huge waterfall cascading down from the cliffs.

PERITO MORENO GLACIER, Argentina — The deep cracking sound bursting from within the ice signals the dramatic fall about to happen. Seconds later, a block of ice some 70 meters (230 ft) tall – the size ...