And when it encounters the ocean, it forms an ice tongue and this ice tongue is unstable and there's bits and pieces breaking off every now and then as this ice moves into the ocean. And this is ...

The video, taken on a recent day off, shows Jordan walking through "one of the many glacial caves inside the Erebus Glacier Tongue," a unique and stunning ice formation that extends out from the ...

The loss of a massive 'tongue' of glacial ice on the Antarctic coast — a natural protective barrier nearly the size of Luxembourg (2.500 square kilometers) — could affect ocean circulation ...

This latest development poses a renewed threat to the nearby pier of land-attached ice known as the Drygalski ice tongue. The sheer scale of B-15A is best appreciated from space.

THIS ICE TONGUE WAS ACTUALLY OVER THE LAST 70 YEARS, MOVING FORWARD. THINK OF ICE TONGUES AS CORKS, WHICH, ONCE REMOVED, ALLOW GLACIAL MELT TO FLOW FREELY INTO THE OCEAN. SO WHY IS ONE GOING AWAY?

Much like a tongue freezes to a frigid metal pole, ice can speed up the adsorption, or stickiness, of molecules. An icy surface can also cause molecules to degrade in the presence of light, releasing ...