Argentina’s huge ice wall is a surprise tourist attraction. It’s now falling apart - The sight has attracted visitors to ...

Large calving events used to take place at Pine Island Glacier every four to six years ... 2018 and now in early 2020. The 2018 iceberg was larger than this one, at about the size of Chicago.

The deep cracking sound bursting from within the ice signals the dramatic fall about to happen. Seconds later, a block of ice ...

Unusual large ice calving events at Argentina’s Perito Moreno glacier point to underwater melting caused by rising lake ...

A dramatic spectacle unfolded at the Perito Moreno glacier in Argentina as it released a towering block of ice, measuring 70 ...

The study’s key finding was that the net loss of Antarctic ice from coastal glacier chunks “calving” off into ... million tons a year from 2002 to 2020, according to NASA.

For several decades the Perito Moreno glacier was unusually stable, unlike other glaciers across the world, amid soaring global temperatures. But this changed around 2020.

James Youngel/NASA Satellite imagery released in 2020 of Pine Island and ... further disintegration and large calving events. An aerial view of Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctic, Jan. 30, 2019.

Since 2012, the glacier has been shedding 58 billion tons of ice a year, making the biggest single contribution to global sea level rise of any ice stream on the planet. The latest calving event ...

That changed in 2020. Just as the pandemic was beginning its terrible spread around the world, we were conducting an expedition from a research vessel in Antarctica and were treated to the spectacle ...