Friday, March 21 marks the inaugural World Glacier Day, an international observance established by the United Nations to ...

This is a developing story. A warning about a sizeable collapse of the Mendenhall Glacier, following active calving recently and a large crack on its face, was issued by the U.S. Forest Service on ...

He was a world-class endurance athlete, and then Pugh decided he could use attention-grabbing swims to persuade governments to think differently about marine ecosystems.

But gathering data from the leading edge of a glacier — aka its calving front — isn’t easy. Massive chunks of ice the size of small buildings can break off and crash into the ocean without warning, ...

The highlight of the tour was watching glaciers calving. Calving is when large chunks of ice fall off or break off of the edge of a glacier. The captain and ranger both said this was extremely ...

A similar thing can happen with real glaciers. When their edges break off and fall into the ocean, it’s known as calving. These pieces of glaciers are called icebergs.

The William Glacier typically has one or two large calving events per year, and the team estimated this one broke off around 78,000 square meters of ice – around the area of 10 football pitches ...