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

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.

He’d come to the town of Ilulissat to swim in a tidal fjord fed by one of the world’s fasting moving glaciers. Calving at a rate of 11 cubic miles a year, the glacier contributes to sea-level ...

White boulders shape-shifted in the twilight, and the sound of a calving glacier ricocheted like a gunshot between the mountains. I retrieved the whistle from beneath the down jacket I was ...

Their love for travel has taken them to incredible places, including cycling over the Golden Gate Bridge and witnessing glaciers calving in Alaska. “As we have been fortunate to visit the UK and ...

The side of the glacier melts from the bottom up, creating an overhang of ice that can break off (this is called calving). This quickly adds more ice to the ocean. When glacier ice is exposed to ...

Having started life as snowflakes some 250,000 years ago, it has spent the millennia turning itself into a chunk of the Jakobshavn Glacier before calving off and nudging its way along the ...

It's losing around 150 billion tonnes of ice a year - half of it breaking off the continent in the form of icebergs calving from glaciers, the rest melting directly from its vast ice sheets as ...

Glacier calving is the natural process of ice chunks breaking away from the edge of a glacier. Experiencing this phenomenon from a kayak is both intimate and exhilarating. This article delves into ...