A village buried by a landslide, the world’s largest tidal bore and the aftermath of ferocious storms and wildfires appear in ...

For Arctic residents and a few polar addicts, icebergs are familiar. I've skied, paddled, and boated past thousands of them. But most of us have just seen photos of these beautiful ice sculptures and ...

The Fundamental Physics Behind Ice Calving Ice calving, also known as glacier calving or iceberg calving, is the breaking of ...

Geologist Peter Malin and his former graduate student, Allen Hunt, suggest that the growing weight of the ice sheet would have triggered quakes by causing periodic crustal failure along what is now ...

Glacial earthquakes are a special type of earthquake generated in cold, icy regions. First discovered in the Northern ...

Researchers are using machine learning to analyze satellite radar data to detect icebergs in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica as a way to better understand their life cycle and environmental ...

Tumbling icebergs can release energies on the level of atom bombs, scaled-down laboratory experiments with plastic bergs suggest. Although huge, hulking icebergs might appear relatively stable in the ...

A Dubai-based engineering firm wants to tow icebergs from Antarctica to Dubai in order to provide the city with a reserve of fresh drinking water. The firm will use satellite imagery to select ...

The icy waters off the Antarctic Peninsula conceal one of the most fascinating ecosystems on the planet: a crystalline seascape populated by foot-long sea spiders, centuries-old glass sponges and long ...

If you're unfamiliar with the story of the Titanic, the infamous "unsinkable" ocean liner that, well, sank in 1912, you either really hate disaster stories, ships, or movies, or you're like Captain ...