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

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

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

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 ...

These images, snapped by the OLI (Operational Land Imager) on January 1, show pools of pale blue meltwater peppered across the Amery Ice Shelf in East Antarctica. This melting comes despite ...

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 ...