Antarctic ice shelves are shrinking mainly due to frequent small calving events, while major iceberg break-offs remain rare ...

You can get in touch with Jess by emailing j.thomson@newsweek.com. Bizarre blue streaks dotted across an ice shelf in Antarctica have been spotted by NASA. These images, snapped by the OLI ...

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 ...

An international team of Earth and environmental scientists has found evidence that the Ronne Ice Shelf in the West Antarctic ...

At the margins of the Antarctic ice sheet, glaciers flow into the Southern Ocean, forming floating ice shelves. These ice shelves act as keystones, stabilising the ice sheet. They're also shrinking.

New research has found a "missing piece of the puzzle" of West Antarctic ... ice sheets tick." More information: Daniel P. Lowry et al, Ocean cavity regime shift reversed West Antarctic grounding ...

At the margins of the Antarctic ice sheet, glaciers flow into the Southern Ocean, forming floating ice shelves. These ice shelves act as keystones, stabilizing the ice sheet. They're also shrinking.

Why is a remote glacier in Antarctica that contains ... used satellite imagery to show the “grounding line” – the point at which the ice is no longer grounded on the continent and starts ...

The iceberg calved off West Antarctica's Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf ... onto the shelf and become stuck for some time." Why does it pose a threat to South Georgia? The iceberg could ground against ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf in Antarctica. | Credit: Data courtesy of Landsat 8 satellite ...

"Warm" water is flowing toward one of Antarctica's biggest ice shelves, which, if it melted, could dramatically raise sea levels. The Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf (FRIS) extends over the Weddell Sea in ...