When the edge of a Greenland glacier breaks off into the sea to become an iceberg, can a global seismic network "hear" it?

A fiber-optic cable lying quietly on the seafloor has captured 56,000 iceberg break-offs in just three weeks. This experiment ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Now, researchers have laid a fiber optic cable on the seafloor near a glacier in Greenland, revealing in unprecedented detail what ...

A glass thread strung along the bottom of a fjord captured the entire process of calving, from the cracking of ice to the ...

For years, a popular part of many cruises in southeast Alaska has been sailing up Tracy Arm, a long, narrow fjord marked by ...

Ice calving, the dramatic breaking of colossal icebergs, is a natural glacier process amplified by global warming. Witnessed ...

Erin Pettit and researchers at Oregon State University were set to find out. They’ve been studying melting glaciers by dropping hydrophones — specialized underwater microphones — into the water near ...

One of the buzziest technologies in modern science may be running right under your feet. Fiber optic cables bring you the internet as data-rich pulses of light, but they also detect signals from the ...