Larsen C lies next to a smaller ice shelf that disintegrated in 2002 after developing a crack similar to the one now growing in Larsen C. Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable Ice ...

O.V.E.R.V.I.E.W./Flickr, CC BY 2.0 For now, the Filchner ... ocean up to the continental shelf, then along the undersea Filchner Trough toward the edge of the ice shelf. However, most of these ...

In 2022, an international team of scientists sent a 20-foot-long autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) named “Ran” to traverse the never-explored region beneath the Dotson Ice Shelf in West ...

The imagery from the base of Dotson Ice shelf helps us interpret and calibrate what we see from the satellites,” says Karen Alley. Scientists now realize there is a wealth of processes left to ...

"This allows us to determine what is and isn't slush, and then we can ... of Antarctica's large ice shelves, so over half of all surface meltwater has been ignored until now," said Dell.

Then, once or twice per day, the large section lurches forward against the Ross ... “I’ve published several papers about the Whillans Ice Stream slip events in the past, but had not discovered that ...

According to the research, here’s how the process works. Warmer air temperatures cause the top layers of ice on the ice shelf to melt. The newly liquid water forms a pool, which concentrates the ...

Now, for the first time in the field ... thousands of meltwater lakes littered the ice shelf's surface, which then drained over just a few weeks. To investigate the impacts of surface meltwater ...

The prevailing theory posited that these winds generated ocean currents capable of transporting warm water towards the underside of the ice shelves. This warm water would then interact with the ice, ...

Because ice shelves typically buttress the land-based part of a glacier, it's now expected that Cadman Glacier will lose water more rapidly. Currently, it drains some 2.38 billion tons (2.16 ...