On March 25 a crazy looking cloud went over parts of Tampa, FL known as a shelf cloud. In this week’s Sunday Science Tidbit we’re going to investigate what makes this cloud so ominous. Take a look at ...

A series of photos showing the Conga ice shelf’s collapse. The shelf’s disintegration in March 2022 has reshaped a landscape where coastal glacial ice was once thought to be stable. Credit: NASA On ...

Balmy surface temperatures, not an unstable underbelly, probably prompted the largest ice shelf collapse ever recorded, researchers report in the Sept. 12 Science. In 2002 a Rhode Island–sized hunk of ...

Antarctic ice shelves can disappear astonishingly fast — sometimes in minutes or hours — as meltwater surges through cracks in their surface. And as the atmosphere warms, this phenomenon may become ...