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In January 2002 part of the Larsen B ice shelf began to collapse and separate from the Antarctic continent: thousands of icebergs were set adrift in the Weddell Sea. In five years the shelf has ...
New map shows vulnerability of Antarctic ice to self-fracking Over half of the ice shelves seem susceptible to process that doomed Larsen B.
A rift is extending farther across the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica, threatening to set in motion the collapse of the entire shelf.
The Larsen C ice shelf of the Antarctic Peninsula is considered to be vulnerable to collapse under certain global warming scenarios, according to researchers. The loss of ice shelves – the part ...
An enormous mass of ice just broke off from Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf.
In 2002, an area of ice about the size of Rhode Island dramatically broke away from Antarctica as the Larsen B ice shelf collapsed. A new study of the conditions that led to the collapse may ...
Peter Lea Climate change On one level, it is part of the natural order of things for ice shelves like Larsen C, and Larsen B (which broke away in 2002), to separate from the mainland, said Lea, so we ...
The Delaware-size iceberg that calved off Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf in July 2017 is on the move. The trillion-ton chunk of ice performed a graceful northerly pivot over the course of July ...
The disintegration of the Larsen A shelf in 1995 and of the Larsen B shelf in 2002 was preceded by the landfall of these atmospheric rivers from the Pacific Ocean, according to the New York Times.
Does that mean: At the location of the grounding line, stresses on the ice (which is now thinner) from the repeated up and down cycling from the tides contribute to the ice break up. ?