It's hard to truly appreciate the effects of climate change. We hear of a two-degree jump over the course of decades, of dwindling animal populations, and of sea levels rising inches. These effects ...

Parturition, or the birthing process, has three stages. Understanding the stages is critical in order to know when/if we need to provide assistance during calving season to increase the likelihood a ...

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 ...

Glaciers that lose their footing on the seafloor and begin floating behave very erratically, according to a new study led by a Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego researcher. Floating ...

It’s winter in Antarctica and direct observation of the ever-widening crack in the Larsen C ice shelf has been difficult. However, geologists with Project MIDAS, a UK-based research project, have been ...

Two new and very large icebergs broke away from the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica earlier this month in a natural “calving” process that returned the edge of the shelf to its pre-exploration position ...