Ice calving, also known as glacier calving or iceberg calving, is the breaking of ice chunks from the edge of a glacier. It is a form of ice ablation or ice disruption. It is the sudden release and ...

When the edge of a Greenland glacier breaks off into the sea to become an iceberg, can a global seismic network “hear” it?

A fiber-optic cable lying quietly on the seafloor has captured 56,000 iceberg break-offs in just three weeks. This experiment reveals, in remarkable detail, how glaciers fracture, collapse, and ...

(Gray News) – Scientists said earthquakes have been shaking the Antarctic’s Thwaites Glacier, also known as the Doomsday Glacier. According to a study published last month, ice that has accumulated in ...

One of the buzziest technologies in modern science may be running right under your feet. Fiber optic cables bring you the internet as data-rich pulses of light, but they also detect signals from the ...

Erin Pettit and researchers at Oregon State University were set to find out. They’ve been studying melting glaciers by dropping hydrophones — specialized underwater microphones — into the water near ...

Inside the extremely niche world of glacier surfing – as in, riding waves created by a collapsing (or calving) iceberg – the main place it has been done, in the past, is Alaska. Novelty surf ...

JUNEAU, Alaska — For years, a popular part of many cruises in southeast Alaska has been sailing up Tracy Arm, a long, narrow fjord marked by steep mountains, glittering waterfalls and calving glaciers ...