“The Larsen C will now be at risk from the same processes,” he said. Image A rift in the Larsen C Ice Shelf in February 2017. Scientists say the C ice shelf could meet the same fate as A and B ...

Rapid melting of West Antarctica’s ice shelves may now be unavoidable as human-caused global warming accelerates, with potentially devastating implications for sea level rise around the world ...

Rift through Larsen C ice shelf has grown to 175 ... limited observations from the Larsen ice shelves could be applied more broadly. Researchers are now looking back to the history of Larsen ...

A huge crack in an Antarctic ice shelf now has a new second branch, scientists announced Tuesday. Once the crack completely shears off, it will create one of the largest icebergs ever recorded ...

A Texas-sized ice shelf seems to be dabbling in the art of music. The Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica is emitting tones reminiscent of a didgeridoo, or the drone of a horror film soundtrack.

No, but it could indirectly cause a tiny sea-level rise years, decades, or even centuries from now ... Ice flows gradually into the shelf, the shelf expands until stresses become too much, and ...

No wonder that all eyes are now on Petermann ... a deep channel into the underside of the ice shelf near the glacier’s grounding line. And then there’s this image, which Humbert sent The ...

"Now we realize that melting underneath the ice shelves be the ocean is equally important and for some places, far more important. This knowledge is crucial for understanding how the ice sheets ...

The size of Canada’s last fully intact ice shelf ... Milne Ice Shelf on Ellesmere Island in the northern territory of Nunavut collapsed into the ocean. This large sheet of ice then drifted ...

First, bubble-free icebergs need to form at the bases of ice shelves jutting out ... Laura Herraiz-Borreguero–then at the University of Tasmania and now at the University of Southampton ...

These channels appear to be formed as the warm water that hits the grounding line then bursts upward in a plume, combined with meltwater, and cuts into the ice shelf from below, Alley said. “ ...