The future of one of Antarctica's most iconic glaciers could be far more dramatic than scientists previously thought. Using ...

When a chunk of ice breaks off a glacier, that’s called calving. That can happen if the glacier gets warm or some other force makes a piece split off. The end of the glacier – where the iceberg slides ...

The world’s widest glacier isn’t as grounded as scientists once thought. Relatively warm seawater is rushing underneath Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier, contributing to rapid melting and global sea ...

Northeast Greenland is home to the 79 N Glacier -- the country's largest floating glacier tongue, but also one seriously threatened by global warming: warm water from the Atlantic is melting it from ...

There is a particular kind of silence among glaciologists when they talk about certain glaciers. Not uncertainty exactly - more like the quiet discomfort of knowing something the rest of the world ...