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Ice shelf collapse reveals early warning signs of melt
15 Sep 2025 12:27 GMT
… collapse of an ice shelf on the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, called the … below, called basal melting, ice loss due to more melt from the glacier … process known as calving. During this stage, calving resulted in a net …
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NASA satellites spot brand-new island in Alaska formed by melting glacier (photos)
14 Sep 2025 16:01 GMT
… emerged after long-standing glacial ice melted, isolating a small … around 1999, when both ice masses had receded further, … more prone to calving, when large chunks of ice break off … decades. Expanding lakes, unstable ice fronts and newly exposed terrain …
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Everyone Wants to Go to Antarctica. Here’s Why You Should Sail to This Fjord-Filled Subpolar Region Instead
13 Sep 2025 00:45 GMT
… beyond the icy wilds of Antarctica, the picturesque settlements in … to the sea, casting off icebergs into the turquoise water. … to the thunderous roar of ice calving off a glacier.
Guests have … , looming glaciers, and slick icebergs, all set to the backdrop …
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Politics World’s biggest iceberg breaks up after 40 years
12 Sep 2025 07:03 GMT
… years after breaking off Antarctica, a colossal iceberg ranked among the oldest … “iceberg alley” into the South Atlantic Ocean by the powerful Antarctic Circumpolar … the freezing protection of Antarctica, he added.
Iceberg calving is a natural process …
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World’s largest iceberg breaks apart over South Atlantic
11 Sep 2025 01:07 GMT
… Antarctic Peninsula.
The agency said the iceberg originally broke free from Antarctica’s ice … other giant icebergs in the current.
ANTARCTICA’S ‘DOOMSDAY GLACIER’ IS MELTING AWAY … of large calving events and could lead to more mega icebergs.
The …
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Leopard seals sing like the Beatles
11 Sep 2025 14:36 GMT
… surface, the boom of calving ice, the thunders of waves … voice across miles of ice and water.
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Advertisement … captured in remote, rugged Antarctica during the 1990s. Yet … leopard seal in Paradise Harbour, Antarctica. CREDIT: Matthias Breiter…
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Foot and Paddle: Exploring Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska
13 Sep 2025 05:56 GMT
… . Hanging glaciers, rivers of ice high on the mountain slopes … rain and snow, freezing and melting, and, of course, gravity. … small car. Eventually, they will melt in the sea water, but … mountains, beholding a calving, and holding a small iceberg in my hands …
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I went on the bucket list Alaskan cruise where you spot bear cubs, sea lions and whales from onboard
12 Sep 2025 21:04 GMT
… eagle perched on a mini-iceberg, drifting by.
Those bear … Fjord, where towering walls of ice reduce deckbound watchers to appreciative … crash of glacial “calving”, where chunks of ice fall off the face … of the glacier to form icebergs …
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NASA satellite images reveal a new island formed in Alaska - and experts say climate change is to blame
12 Sep 2025 14:55 GMT
… to a process known as calving, in which the front … unstable and breaks off into icebergs, speeding up the retreat. … devastating flash floods.
As glaciers melt, the water drains into … the Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica collapses.
Sea level rises threaten …
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Introducing the finalists for the British Farming Awards Dairy Farmer of the Year 2025
12 Sep 2025 15:38 GMT
… with a 350-cow spring-calving herd. Alongside his daughters, Georgie … managed on a summer block calving system, the herd grazes in … production in their on-site ice creamery. Milked by a state … away into small-batch, artisan ice cream, a product that has …