Much of this uncertainty is because the ocean processes that control the fate of the sheet occur on an incredibly small scale ...

"The change of seasons causes surface melting far inland from the coastal ice front," glaciologist Christopher Shuman said.

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

Satellite data from early 2025 revealed extensive melting at Antarctica’s Amery Ice Shelf, highlighting its vulnerability. As ...

The rift in the Larsen C Ice Shelf shortly before calving of giant iceberg. Photo: Rosey Grant @ BAS A new study by scientists from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has used computer modeling to ...

The West Antarctic ice sheet could cause metres of sea level rise if it collapses – but more than 120,000 years ago, it may ...

Antarctica's ice shelves are melting more rapidly than previously known because of climate change, according to a new US Geological Survey report prepared in close collaboration with the British ...

So far, they've uncovered not just one relationship but several, each indicating a different melt "regime ... eastern part of the Dotson ice shelf in west Antarctica, an autonomous robot observed ...

Meltwater has been observed atop the Amery Ice Shelf in Antarctica, as evidenced by recent imagery obtained from the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8. On January 1, these images revealed the ...

The vast Antarctic ... the ice extends over the ocean, where it forms large floating shelves. Observations suggest many of these ice shelves are thinning as they melt from below, with implications ...

Ice shelves in Antarctica ice shelves act as keystones ... one relationship but several , each indicating a different melt“regime”. Ocean conditions (temperature, salt content and the speed ...