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

The calving process begins when a rift opens in the edge of a glacier, caused by wind or water erosion, melting ice, or other events that cause the glacier to become unstable.

July 1 (UPI) --New research has confirmed the primary driver of glacier calving, but analysis showed the effects of subsurface water temperatures aren't as influential as previously thought.

This includes seven active tidewater glaciers calving into ocean waters—a dramatic event popular with cruise ship passengers who comprise more than 95 percent of the park’s visitors.

A huge chunk of ice twice the size of Washington, D.C., just broke off of Antarctica's Pine Island glacier, continuing a troubling trend that could signify glacial collapse.

This image, taken by an aerial drone and provided to the Empire by the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Juneau, shows Suicide Basin on the Mendenhall Glacier after a calving event ...

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 Helheim glacier calving, sped up 20x. Filmed by Denise Holland/NYU In just 30 minutes at the end of June, four-and-a-half miles of icebergs fractured off of Greenland’s Helheim glacier in an ...

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.

Here's what Antarctica's calving glaciers look like up close. The Thwaites Glacier is often considered one of the most important when it comes to changes in sea level, but it has been little studied.

The National Weather Service office in Juneau has canceled a flood watch for the Mendenhall River after the Mendenhall Glacier calved ice into Suicide Basin. The basin, uphill from the face of the ...