Bertie Miles receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust. East Antarctica’s Conger ice shelf – a floating platform the size of Rome – broke off the continent on March 15, 2022. Since the ...

“Conger is a very small ice shelf which has been decreasing in size for many years and this was just the final step which caused it to collapse.” Antarctica is the coldest, iciest place on ...

When an ice shelf like Conger is lost, the grounded ice once kept behind the shelf may start to flow faster as the restraining force of the ice shelf is lost, resulting in more ice tumbling into ...

Scientists have used satellite imagery over a 25-year period to document the "evolution" of the Conger-Glenzer ice shelf — about 1,200 square kilometres in size — which rapidly disintegrated ...

An ice shelf larger than New York City has broken off eastern Antarctica, the first major shelf to collapse there in more than four decades of satellite observations. The Conger Ice Shelf ...

This picture from the Sentinel-1 satellite shows iceberg C-38 breaking away from the Conger ice shelf as it collapsed in Antarctica. A big ice shelf about the size of Rome has collapsed in Antarctica.

Global warming is making events like this more likely. The Conger Ice Shelf in East Antarctica, thought to be stable and relatively unaffected by climate change, completely disintegrated in mid-March.

led to the disintegration of the Conger ice shelf. By Henry Fountain For the first time since satellites began observing Antarctica nearly half a century ago, an ice shelf has collapsed on the ...

The Conger ice shelf, which had an approximate surface area of 1,200 sq km, collapsed around 15 March, scientists said on Friday. East Antarctica saw unusually high temperatures last week ...