The British Antarctic Survey said the break occurred in the early hours of Monday after a crack suddenly appeared in the ice shelf a few weeks ago. The break-off is the third major iceberg calving ...

Greenland ice sheet cracking open quicker than ever before, warn scientists - If the Greenland Ice Sheet was to melt, sea ...

The Great Crack-Up By JEFFREY KLUGER Photographs ... calved off of the Larsen C ice shelf in western Antarctica. The damage to the ice is being done not just from above, as the planet’s air ...

An curved arrow pointing right. A 30-mile long crack in the Nansen Ice Shelf could break off a block of ice twice the size of Manhattan at any moment. Produced by Jacqui Frank. Original reporting ...

A historic ice core recently drilled from deep beneath the Antarctic surface by the Beyond EPICA - Oldest Ice project. Credit: Scoto © / PNRA / IPEV At an extremely ...

Melting ice in Antarctica could trigger volcanic eruptions beneath the continent’s vast ice sheet, creating a slow but dangerous feedback loop, scientists warn. A new study suggests the melting ...

As the ice sheets melt, eruptions may become more common – and stronger If you picture Antarctica, a continent roughly the size of the US and Mexico combined, an endless white void probably ...

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Antarctica's Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf may be under threat due to relatively warm water from the deep sea flowing towards the shelf. Is climate change to blame? When you purchase through links on ...

Director of Operations Captain Tim Stockings said Halley VI Research Station sits on a floating ice shelf and relocation is scheduled to be completed early March 2017 British Antarctic Survey (BAS ...

At 1.2-million-years-old, a newly uncovered Antarctic ice core represents the oldest known ice on the planet. The 1.7 mile-long ice core was recovered from over 9,000 feet (2,800 meters ...