WASHINGTON — An iceberg 47 miles long and 4.6 miles across has broken off the Ross Ice Shelf in the Antarctic, the National Ice Center reported Thursday. The giant sheet of glacial ice and snow ...

Because of its importance to the stability of Antarctica's interior glaciers, scientists are keen to understand the ice shelf's dynamics. The Ross Ice Shelf is already melting at an accelerated ...

A team of scientists from Finland and New Zealand have arrived at McMurdo Sound in Antarctica to begin a six-week expedition diving beneath the Ross Ice Shelf.

ROSETTA-Ice collected data from the massive Ross Ice Shelf, which helps slow the flow of about 20 percent of Antarctica's grounded ice into the ocean -- equivalent to 38 feet of global sea level rise.

High basal melting forming a channel at the grounding line of Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica. Geophysical Research Letters , 2015; DOI: 10.1002/2015GL066612 Cite This Page : ...

Large chunks of the ice shelf can be seen disappearing in successive maps from the 1990, 2005, and 2015 editions of the atlas. A 1990 National Geographic image shows the ice shelf largely intact.

The Ross ice shelf is an expanse of ice 185,000 square miles (480,000) square kilometers) in area and hundreds of feet thick. Ice flows onto the shelf from the land-based East and West Antarctic ...

A conveyer belt of ice jostles the entire Ross Ice Shelf out of place at least once daily, according to new research from Washington University in St. Louis.

Deploy two robots, or autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV) — one to dive beneath the sea ice to map the bottom of the Nansen ice shelf, from which two Manhattan-sized icebergs broke last year. The ...

B ordering the southern Weddell Sea, the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf (FRIS) is Antarctica’s largest ice shelf after the Ross Ice Shelf. Its cold, dense, and salty waters gush upstream into the ...

Researchers working on the ROSETTA-Ice Project have discovered an ancient rock formation underneath Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf, the world’s largest sheet of ice. Using the IcePod system, the ...

[Antarctica: The Ice-Covered Bottom of the World (Photos)] The Ross Ice ShelfThe Ross ice shelf is an expanse of ice 185,000 square miles (480,000) square kilometers) in area and hundreds of feet ...