Petermann Glacier is one of Greenland’s largest glaciers. In 2012, a “tongue” of ice broke off – releasing an iceberg about the size of Manhattan. Dubbed PII-2012, the giant iceberg measured ...

One of the largest icebergs ever recorded -- measuring about the size of Delaware and containing a volume of ice twice the size of Lake Erie -- has broken free from the Larsen C Ice Shelf in northwest ...

Boulder, Colo., USA: Glaciers that drain ice sheets such as Antarctica or Greenland often flow into the ocean, ending in near-vertical cliffs. As the glacier flows into the sea, chunks of the ice ...

The iceberg was the result of a "calving" event that scientists had been expecting for about a decade A massive iceberg larger than New York City broke off of an ice shelf in Antarctica this week, the ...

Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research Cracks in the floating ice tongue of Petermann Glacier in the far northwest reaches of Greenland indicate the pending loss of ...

Crash diet alert: Antarctica’s Brunt Ice Shelf has slimmed down by about 256 billion tons. As part of a major calving event, an iceberg nearly the size of Houston, Texas, separated from the continent ...

Glaciers that drain ice sheets such as Antarctica or Greenland often flow into the ocean, ending in near-vertical cliffs. As the glacier flows into the sea, chunks of the ice break off in calving ...

Iceberg A-68, which recently calved from Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf, is the third-largest iceberg on record. Some scientists have described the iceberg's calving as a "natural" event that can't ...

Cracks in the floating ice tongue of Petermann Glacier in the far northwest reaches of Greenland indicate the pending loss of another large iceberg. Cracks in the floating ice tongue of Petermann ...

Glaciologists have been expecting this kind of event for a decade. An iceberg larger than New York City has broken off an ice shelf in Antarctica, scientists say. The 490-square mile glacier broke off ...

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