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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Now, the new findings published yesterday ... "And so the question is what happens, then, when the ice shelves are really just kind of swamped with meltwater in the summers? It might be a really ...

It's now a third of a mile deep ... As the air and water warmed, those ice shelves started melting and then splintered into shards in 1995 and 2002. Sponsor Message But the crack in Larsen ...

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.

"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 ...

Now, for the first time in the field ... thousands of meltwater lakes littered the ice shelf's surface, which then drained over just a few weeks. To investigate the impacts of surface meltwater ...

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 ...

A massive iceberg splintered off one of West Antarctica’s largest glaciers last year, and now, scientists have ... which forms part of the ice shelf that bounds the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.