Rising Sea Levels When you think about the ice melting in Greenland and Antarctica, you're really looking at the biggest reason our sea levels are rising. It's pretty surprising, but these icy places ...

Circle a country or region by sea and you will experience its changing character in a way no other trip can rival ...

The jagged fragment has an area of roughly 31 sq miles (80 sq km) - just a fraction of the approximately 1,297 sq miles ...

Scientists warn that the Greenland Ice Sheet is breaking up faster thanks to climate change, potentially triggering a 'domino ...

causing the glacier to gradually disintegrate, which is part of the normal life cycle of an ice shelf. A23a formed by calving from the Filchner Ice Shelf in Antarctica in 1986, ran aground in the ...

Since breaking off from Antarctica in 1986 ... When ice accumulated on a glacier becomes too thick, it eventually breaks off under the effect of gravity and pressure. This phenomenon, called "calving, ...

This is how you go about hiking in Patagonia when you’re over 60 years of age – in a manner that is both challenging but ...

It is on the expedition’s return leg that the team will aim to find Shackleton’s legendary ship, Endurance, crushed by pack and sank An Antarctic ... surrounding the calving of the massive ...

The Thurston Island calving front off of western Antarctica. Image: NASA/Jim Yungel At number two is Thurston Island Glacier No. 1 – located between the Amundsen and Bellingshausen Seas – which ...