An enormous section of ice breaks away near Ilulissat, sending powerful pulses racing across the water.

A giant iceberg covering29 square miles broke away from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier before hitting a rocky island in Arctic ...

In August 2026, an iceberg the size of Manhattan broke away from the Petermann Ice Shelf in northern Greenland. It was the ...

An ice island the size of Manhattan broke away from one of Greenland's largest glaciers.

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 ...

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 huge slab of floating ice has broken away from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier, creating an ice island roughly the size of Manhattan. The 76.4 sq km section separated from the glacier’s floating ice ...

We can talk about warmer and wetter winters, chronic and worsening droughts, and we can discuss how extreme hurricanes and forest fires are the “new normal.” We can look at the statistics and read the ...

Something big happened at the edge of Greenland this month, and satellites caught the whole thing. On August 4, a massive slab of ice broke away from the Petermann Glacier in the country's northwest ...

A recent video of an iceberg in Los Glaciares National Park in December shows the ice slowly flipping in the water until a bright blue color is revealed. The stunning video prompted many who viewed it ...