Antarctic Ice Shelves

The Antarctic Ocean area covered by ice has shrunk to a record low, exposing the thicker ice shelves buttressing Antarctica's ground ice sheet to waves and warmer temperatures, scientists reported Thursday.

NASA’s recent study led by researchers from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has revealed that Antarctica's coastal glaciers are shedding icebergs more rapidly than nature can replenish the crumbling ice. This raises new concern about how fast climate change is weakening Antarctica's floating ice shelves and accelerating the rise of global sea...

Strong winds are causing vast Antarctic ice shelves to break off, such as the trillion-tonne iceberg that recently snapped away from the South Pole, scientists say.

A trillion-tonne iceberg, one of the largest ever recorded, has snapped off the West Antarctic ice shelf, scientists who have monitored the growing crack for years said on Wednesday.

A long-growing crack in the Larsen C ice shelf, one of Antarctica's largest floating platforms of ice, appears to be nearing its endgame.

A more than 100-mile-long crack in one of Antarctica's largest ice shelves grew another 6 miles in little over two weeks this month, British scientists reported Thursday. That's on top of an 11-mile growth that occurred in the second two weeks of December - representing a 17 mile total advance in not much more than a month.

For some time, scientists who focus on Antarctica have been watching the progression of a large crack in one of the world's great ice shelves - Larsen C, the most northern major ice shelf of the Antarctic peninsula, and the fourth largest Antarctic ice shelf overall.

Two years ago, a pair of scientific studies documented that the glaciers of West Antarctica, which hold back more than 3 meters (nearly 10 feet) of potential sea level rise, are melting and retreating from below. The cause? It appears that these glaciers, which are perched on the seafloor deep below the ocean surface, are being lapped at by flows o...

A jump in global average temperatures of 1.5 degrees Celsius to 2 degrees Celsius will see the collapse of Antarctic ice shelves and lead to hundreds and even thousands of years of sea level rise, a new research has warned.

When it comes to climate change, Antarctica is one of the world's major places of concern, mostly because of the sheer amount of ice it contains - enough to theoretically cause about 200 feet of sea-level rise if it were all to melt - not that anyone thinks that will happen anytime soon.

The last intact section of one of Antarctica's mammoth ice shelves is weakening fast and will likely disintegrate completely in the next few years, contributing further to rising sea levels, according to a NASA study released on Thursday.

The Antarctic Ocean area covered by ice has shrunk to a record low, exposing the thicker ice shelves buttressing Antarctica's ground ice sheet to waves and warmer temperatures, scientists reported Thursday.

NASA’s recent study led by researchers from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has revealed that Antarctica's coastal glaciers are shedding icebergs more rapidly than nature can replenish the crumbling ice. This raises new concern about how fast climate change is weakening Antarctica's floating ice shelves and accelerating the rise of global sea...

Strong winds are causing vast Antarctic ice shelves to break off, such as the trillion-tonne iceberg that recently snapped away from the South Pole, scientists say.

A trillion-tonne iceberg, one of the largest ever recorded, has snapped off the West Antarctic ice shelf, scientists who have monitored the growing crack for years said on Wednesday.

A long-growing crack in the Larsen C ice shelf, one of Antarctica's largest floating platforms of ice, appears to be nearing its endgame.

A more than 100-mile-long crack in one of Antarctica's largest ice shelves grew another 6 miles in little over two weeks this month, British scientists reported Thursday. That's on top of an 11-mile growth that occurred in the second two weeks of December - representing a 17 mile total advance in not much more than a month.

For some time, scientists who focus on Antarctica have been watching the progression of a large crack in one of the world's great ice shelves - Larsen C, the most northern major ice shelf of the Antarctic peninsula, and the fourth largest Antarctic ice shelf overall.

Two years ago, a pair of scientific studies documented that the glaciers of West Antarctica, which hold back more than 3 meters (nearly 10 feet) of potential sea level rise, are melting and retreating from below. The cause? It appears that these glaciers, which are perched on the seafloor deep below the ocean surface, are being lapped at by flows o...

A jump in global average temperatures of 1.5 degrees Celsius to 2 degrees Celsius will see the collapse of Antarctic ice shelves and lead to hundreds and even thousands of years of sea level rise, a new research has warned.

When it comes to climate change, Antarctica is one of the world's major places of concern, mostly because of the sheer amount of ice it contains - enough to theoretically cause about 200 feet of sea-level rise if it were all to melt - not that anyone thinks that will happen anytime soon.

The last intact section of one of Antarctica's mammoth ice shelves is weakening fast and will likely disintegrate completely in the next few years, contributing further to rising sea levels, according to a NASA study released on Thursday.