One of the planet's most closely observed ice shelves just had a major change. On Sunday, a massive piece of Antarctica's Brunt Ice Shelf — a chunk about the size of two New York Cities — broke free.

Before and after images of the lake (L) and subsequent ice-strewn crater (R) captured a few days apart by NASA’s ICESat-2 (Scripps Institution of Oceanography) At some point this month, amid the dark ...

One of the Antarctic ice sheets is called the Ronne Ice Shelf and is located in the Weddell Sea. The European Space Agency (ESA) has reported that a gigantic iceberg has calved from the western side ...