A crack spreading inexorably across the Larsen C Ice Shelf in northwest Antarctica has surged forward at record rates, bringing the ice shelf closer to cleaving off an iceberg roughly the size of ...

In 2002, an area of ice about the size of Rhode Island dramatically broke away from Antarctica as the Larsen B ice shelf collapsed. A new study of the conditions that led to the collapse may ...

With no accurate maps to guide them ... of the peninsula have disintegrated into armadas of icebergs. (The Larsen C Ice Shelf may one day do the same, judging from that Delaware-size ice chunk ...

Mar. 14, 2023 — In 2002, an area of ice about the size of Rhode Island dramatically broke away from Antarctica as the Larsen B ice shelf collapsed. A new study of the conditions that led to the ...

The map of average melt duration over the austral summer from 2000–2018 is portrayed in Figure 4. In Region-A, the Ronne-Filchner Ice shelf experienced an average melt of less than 5 days, while the ...

The Larsen C ice shelf of the Antarctic Peninsula is considered to be vulnerable to collapse under certain global warming scenarios, according to researchers. The loss of ice shelves – the ...

These conditions were observed during the collapse of two of the peninsula’s ice shelves – Larsen A and B – in the summers of 1995 and 2002, respectively. And now, as the climate crisis is ...