Pine Island Glacier, one of the fastest-shrinking glaciers in Antarctica, hastened its slide into the sea between 2017 and ...

Icebergs as large as cities, potentially tens of kilometres wide, once roved the coasts of the UK, according to scientists. Researchers found distinctive scratch marks left by the drifting icebergs as ...

“It’s looking very likely that this process explains the collapse of the Larsen B Ice Shelf,” added Doug MacAyeal, University of Chicago Prof. Emeritus of Geophysical Sciences and co-author on the ...

Multidecadal pre- and post-collapse dynamics of the northern Larsen Ice Shelf. Earth and Planetary Science Letters , 2023; 609: 118077 DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118077 Cite This Page : ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — 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 ...

The massive iceberg that broke off the Larsen C Ice Shelf may be a harbinger of a continent-wide collapse that would swamp ... the U.S. icebreaker Nathaniel B. Palmer became perhaps only the ...

In 2002, Larsen C’s neighbouring ice shelf, Larsen B, experienced melting so severe that it eventually caused the shelf to collapse completely. Larsen C is a floating platform of ice on the eastern ...

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 ...

The collapse of the two ice shelves was most likely triggered ... The disintegration of the Larsen A shelf in 1995 and of the Larsen B shelf in 2002 were preceded by landfall of these plumes ...

What’s cold, as big as Rome and should be firmly rooted in Antarctica? The Conger ice shelf, which collapsed in mid-March due to record high temperatures. The Conger collapse “is one of the ...