Embark on an extraordinary adventure as we sail through Alaska's pristine waters to reach a massive calving glacier. Witness ...

Stand in awe while admiring the constantly changing, absolutely stunning Alaskan landscape, which includes the largest tidewater glacier in the country.

That glacier calving wasn’t just a close call for Jobe. Last weekend, hundreds of Alaskans had flocked to the lake about an hour south of Anchorage to skate, bike, walk and sled the smooth surface.

The glacier calving was a near miss, said Luc Mehl, a local adventurer and outdoor educator who teaches classes about wilderness safety and training, including wild ice skating, among other topics.

As the first people to ever survey the calving edge of the world’s widest glacier, our mission is to bring back as much preliminary information as possible.

The study also found that more than half of the glaciers (62%) undergo seasonal cycles in glacier calving – when large chunks of ice break away due to higher ocean and air temperatures.

The losses measured from calving outpaced natural ice shelf replenishment so greatly that researchers found it unlikely Antarctica can return to pre-2000 glacier levels by the end of this century.

“So even big cruise ships that are trying to take passengers up to see calving glaciers, they have to go further up the inlet to actually be able to see a calving glacier,” he said.

The pace of glacier loss has been increasing in recent years as the planet gets warmer, but extreme calving events are still relatively rare, and they are difficult to predict. A new study has ...

On February 20, a dedicated team of researchers presented a new high-resolution calving front dataset from 149 glaciers in Svalbard spanning from 1985 to 2023. This innovative dataset, featured in ...