We’ll spend the first half of the expedition on a glacier, helping scientists who are studying the movement of glaciers and how that leads to the calving of icebergs. Then we’ll travel ...

"It was a sort of natural experiment, where the calving of the glacier tongue was not caused by climate change. This is a natural event, so nature has done the experiment for us this time." ...

“It was interesting watching that, thinking about how much ice that is from that one event — and that there's thousands of these glaciers around Greenland and that's happening constantly.

The 113 sq km block broke off the Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden glacier in Northeast Greenland, which the scientists ... off from a glacier - a process called calving - they are generally not this large.

Greenland's mega-canyon was originally cut ... getting under the glacier and melting it from below - not from iceberg calving," she said. "But if you get increased melting from below, you can ...

She said: "Greenland is losing ice in two main ways - one is by surface melting and that water runs off into the ocean; and the other is by the calving ... mighty Jakobshavn Glacier enters the ...

The Greenland ice sheet is known to be a dynamic and unstable region with 1000’s of icebergs calving each year. Just two years ago, in July 2008, a 27 square kilometre iceberg broke free from ...