The biggest ice shelf in Antarctica is slipping — a first-of-its-kind discovery related to our warming world. A study published in Geophysical Research Letters in March showed that the Ross Ice ...

Within 24 hours of arriving in the Ross ... Ross Ice Shelf. Similarly, the British explorers, Captain Robert Scott and Sir Ernest Shackleton commenced their epic journeys from the Ross Sea ...

It tells us where melting is happening at the base of the ice shelf, providing valuable insight to help refine future climate and sea-level rise ... “For the Ross Ice Shelf, at the moment ...

A team of scientists, led by British Antarctic Survey (BAS), are travelling on board the RRS James Clark Ross. Sea ice ... all the stops to get us to the ice shelf, but our progress became ...

The first period showed declining melt patterns, whilst the second period demonstrated increased melting across major ice shelves in the Ross-Amundsen Sea sector. The study attributes the shift of ...