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

Surface melting for the Antarctic ice sheet appears to have set a record for the 46-year satellite observation period on ...

Antarctica's Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf may be under threat due to relatively ... which is the fastest-growing contribution to sea level rise." Editor's Note: This story was updated on Wednesday ...

These rifts can be detected as they form and grow using satellite data ... more numerous small calving events have dominated Antarctic ice shelf loss over the last half century.

But only recently have simulations of the ice-ocean boundary layer become feasible, as computing resources grow and the ... part of the Dotson ice shelf in west Antarctica, an autonomous robot ...

“Atmospheric rivers” are bringing rain to the frozen slopes of the West Antarctic ice sheet, hitting the ice shelves that play a major role in holding back rapidly retreating glaciers. In a new study, ...

But only recently have simulations of the ice-ocean boundary layer become feasible, as computing resources grow and the ... part of the Dotson ice shelf in west Antarctica, an autonomous robot ...

The Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf in Antarctica ... "We are already observing rapid ice loss in West Antarctica, which is the fastest-growing contribution to sea level rise." ...