Antarctica's massive ice shelves, those vast floating platforms of ice, are destabilizing at an alarming rate due to ocean ...
The Ross Ice Shelf, a platform of ice measuring nearly 200,000 square miles, moves suddenly like plate tectonics that cause ...
Some 7,000 years ago, West Antarctica’s ice sheet retreated, most likely driven by warmer ocean currents slipping under the ...
New research has found a "missing piece of the puzzle" of West Antarctic Ice Sheet melt, revealing that the collapse of the ...
"We found that the whole shelf suddenly moves about 6 to 8 centimeters [2.4 to 3.1 inches] once or twice a day, triggered by a slip on an ice stream that flows into the ice shelf," says geophysicist ...
A recent study of Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf has revealed a fascinating discovery: the entire ice sheet moves forward once ...
As the climate warms and Antarctica's glaciers and ice sheets melt, the resulting rise in sea level has the potential to ...
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 ...
The potential acceleration and eventual disintegration of the Ross Ice Shelf, leading to its movement into the sea, would ...