“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Conger Shelf, a 460-square-kilometers mass of ice has disintegrated in East Antarctica, it was reported over the weekend. It was the first to break up in four decades of satellite observations.

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.

This satellite image provided by NASA, Terra MODIS 22 in February 2022 shows The Conger/Glenzer (Bowman Island) ice shelf and associated fast ice pre-collapse. This satellite image provided by ...

An ice shelf twenty times as large as the island of Manhattan, called the Conger ice shelf, had suddenly fragmented into icebergs and floated away. The Antarctic continent is ringed by ice shelves ...

A hot spot is starting to form along the coast of East Antarctica. An ice shelf that broke apart seemingly unprovoked a couple of years ago had been steadily weakening for 30 years, largely ...

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