but at the same time we benefit from improved satellite imagery and other technology that help us identify and add these changes to our maps." Because so much of the Larsen Ice Shelf has ...

British researchers monitoring the crack in the Larsen C ice shelf say that only about 12 miles now connect the chunk of ice to the rest of the continent. "After a few months of steady ...

Figure 1: Location maps, satellite imagery and ocean profiles ... in the Holocene history of this glacial system. The ice shelf's demise is probably the consequence of a combination of long ...

Geological evidence suggests that ice-shelf decay of this magnitude is not unprecedented, however, prior to 2002 the Larsen-B ice shelf remained intact for the last 11,000 years (ref. 6).

To map out subsurface structures in the ice ... Gutt of the Alfred Wegener Institute led an expedition to the Larsen B ice shelf to study the seafloor that had emerged from its ice shadow five ...

One of the last remaining sections of Antarctica’s Larsen B Ice Shelf is dramatically weakening, according to a new NASA study. The study predicts that what remains of the once-prominent ice ...

“This is a big change. Maps will need to be redrawn.” Larsen C, like two smaller ice shelves that collapsed before it, was holding back relatively little land ice, and it is not expected to ...

Scientists keeping close watch on the Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica have noticed something new: The rift, which has been opening across the shelf for some time, now has a sibling. Using a ...

Scientists confirmed Wednesday morning an iceberg as big as Delaware has calved from the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica ... has changed to the point where maps will have to be redrawn.

In July, a Delaware-sized iceberg broke off from Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf (SN: 8/5/17, p. 6). Now, several research groups aim to assess the stability of the remaining ice shelf ...

Last week a trillion-ton iceberg broke off the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica, birthing one of the largest chunks of floating ice the world has ever seen. The ‘berg is 100 miles long and 600 ...