On Saturday the 300m tall ice colossus struck the shallow continental shelf about 50 miles (80km) from land and now appears to be firmly lodged. "It's probably going to stay more or less where it is, ...

Crustaceans, snails, worms and fish are among the dozens of creatures that deep-sea explorers discovered under a massive ...

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UC Irvine/Columbia University Ice shelves breaking off into icebergs don't directly increase sea levels, since their ice is already resting in the ocean like an ice cube ...

The first icebergs began breaking away from the ice shelf on ... an ESA statement said that icebergs are expected to keep calving off the ice shelf for several weeks. Angelika Humbert, a ...

The biggest iceberg in the world, named A23a, appears to have run aground after drifting around the Southern Ocean near ...

Icebergs are created when pieces of ice break off the end of an ice shelf or a glacier that flows into a body of water. This is called 'calving' and it's a natural process that is responsible ...

It was obvious that it was not ordinary glacier ice." Icebergs break off of glaciers and ice shelves that jut out into the sea. Typical glacier ice forms when layers of snow build up and solidify ...

One of the really pressing questions of our time is, “What will happen if the world continues to warm and the last of the sea ice shelves break up?”. By bouncing signals off the sea floor ...

The world's largest iceberg has run aground just off the coast of South Georgia. But what does this mean for the wildlife ...