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.

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.

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 ...

Scientists keeping close watch on the Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica have noticed something new: The rift, which has been opening across the shelf for some time, now has a sibling. Using a ...

The breakup of the massive Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica is getting closer and will eventually produce an iceberg the size of Delaware prowling the Southern Ocean, according to new NASA data ...

A year ago, an iceberg calved off of the Larsen C ice shelf. The hunk of ice hasn’t moved much since, and that has scientists keeping an eye on it.

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. ?