An iceberg 47 miles long and 4.6 miles across has broken off the Ross Ice Shelf in the Antarctic, ... The 1,250-square-mile section of the Larsen Ice Shelf collapsed during a five-week period that ...

One section of the Ross Ice Shelf is already exhibiting some changes. Shifts in wind direction are blowing sea ice away from the ocean in front of the shelf, creating larger than normal ice-free ...

View of the Ross Ice Shelf. Rick Aster. Ice shelves, the researchers note, are "floating buttresses of large glaciers" extending over oceans. The Ross Ice shelf, which is several hundred meters ...

The shelf, which can be up to 10,000 feet thick, is the largest of several that hold back West Antarctica's massive amounts of ice. If these were to collapse, global sea level would rise by ten feet.

That large section then "lurches forward against the Ross Ice Shelf," according to the outlet. The SciTechDaily story called the study "significant" because of the Ross Ice Shelf's size.

The Ross Ice Shelf is a massive expanse of floating ice that slows the release of about 20 per cent of grounded Antarctic ice out in the ocean, making understanding its evolution vital to ...

Researchers Found A Way To Monitor Ross Ice Shelf From Afar By Shane McGlaun Oct. 17, 2018 7:14 am EST Direct study of Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf is difficult because of the extreme conditions at ...

The Ross Ice Shelf, a platform of ice measuring nearly 200,000 square miles, moves suddenly like plate tectonics that cause earthquakes, say scientists at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.

The scale of Antarctica is startling. Miles of ice stretch to the horizon, growing thicker as you move toward the South Pole. This line represents 20 miles. ROSS SEA Cape Crozier Cape Tennyson ...

Scientists researching in Antarctic fear the Ross Ice Shelf, the size of France, could collapse quickly, triggering a dramatic rise in sea levels, according to reports in the New Zealand press.

A small part of the Larsen B ice shelf in Antarctica, after it collapsed with staggering rapidity according to British scientists, is shown here on March 8, 2002, from the British Antarctic Survey ...