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, ...

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 ...

as the front of it dramatically disintegrated into thousands of small pieces. The William Glacier typically has one or two large calving events per year, and the team estimated this one broke off ...

The RSV Aurora Australis at the front of the Totten Glacier - the first ship to reach the calving front of the glacier. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Dec. 16, 2016 ...

known as calving, is a normal occurrence, said Victoria Pacheco, a tour guide in El Calafate, in Argentina’s Patagonia region, during a hike three days before the inaugural World Glacier Day on ...

This is one of thousands of giant sinkholes, or moulins, in Greenland where water is draining through the ice sheet into the ocean. Meltwater from Greenland is the largest current contributor to ...

The single glacier alone contains 1.7 feet of potential ... So there has been a retreat of the calving front, specifically between 2011 and 2015.” According to researchers at NASA and a team ...

This is one of thousands of giant sinkholes, or moulins, in Greenland where water is draining through the ice sheet into the ocean. Meltwater from Greenland is the largest current contributor to ...