Antarctica just lost another huge piece of ice. The ice broke off of Pine Island Glacier, which is the fastest melting glacier on the continent. Scientists first saw a large rift in the glacier ...

The Pine Island Glacier is one of the largest in West Antarctica, a region that is currently Antarctica’s biggest ice loser. Pine Island, which loses an extraordinary 45 billion tons of ice to ...

Way back in 2012, researchers at the University of Washington saw something pretty crazy: a crack appeared in the Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf. The crack, in and of itself, was nothing too ...

The wisps of "sea smoke" blowing above the Pine Island glacier would typically be a sight obfuscated by clouds. But on Oct. 10, the U.S. Geological Survey's Landsat 8 satellite, which NASA helped ...

This is the crack in the Pine Island Glacier ice shelf seen when NASA's DC-8 flew over the Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf on Oct. 14, 2011 as part of the agency's Operation IceBridge. Disclaimer ...