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 ...

It’s winter in Antarctica and direct observation of the ever-widening crack in the Larsen C ice shelf has been difficult. However, geologists with Project MIDAS, a UK-based research project, have been ...

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 ...

A hunk of ice the size of Delaware broke off from the Antarctic Peninsula. Sometime in the last few days, scientists say an iceberg weighing roughly a trillion metric tons separated from the Larsen C ...

Scientists have identified a new method of ice calving called slumping, and it definitely is cause for alarm. This research, published in Geology and supported by NASA, the National Science Foundation ...

Difficult calving can have long-term health implications — potentially fatal — for a calf and its mom, Oklahoma State University Extension specialists said. “Ranchers who know what to expect in the ...