For nearly a decade, Leigh Stearns and collaborators aimed a laser scanner system at Greenland's Helheim Glacier. Their long-running survey reveals that Helheim's massive calving events don't behave ...

The calving was so drastic that it caused measurable earthquakes in the region. An Antarctic glacier has experienced a rapid retreat 10 times faster than previously measured, according to new research ...

2024 is on track to be one of the warmest years, if not the warmest, in recorded history. That’s bad news for the world’s glaciers. Rising temperatures in the atmosphere and the oceans are causing ...

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 new study has revealed the alarming extent glaciers have shrunk over the past 40 years in a global warming hotspot -- and the biggest retreat has occurred in recent years. A new study has revealed ...

Portage lake and glacier on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025. Lauren Jobe was skating on Portage Lake on Monday, Feb. 10, when she heard the glacier start cracking. She was about 80 yards away. “I know they make ...

It is not a secret that glaciers are melting, and that it causes a problem with sea levels rising, but a new way of reading, collecting, and analyzing data using AI, can make us better understand what ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

An Antarctic glacier has experienced a rapid retreat 10 times faster than previously measured, according to new research. Glaciologists recorded a five-mile retreat in just two months on the Hektoria ...