Evidence from other recent ice shelf disintegrations, like the much smaller Larsen A in 1995 and the 2002 Larsen B collapse, point toward as much as an eight-fold increase in speed of the glaciers ...

The Larsen B Ice Shelf is on the eastern side of the Antarctic Peninsula, the part that looks like an arm reaching out toward South America. The peninsula has warmed 4.5 degrees Fahrenheit since ...

In 2002, the Larsen B ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula abruptly collapsed, scattering 3,200 square kilometers (yes, approximately one standard Rhode Island unit of area) of 200 meter thick ice ...

An iceberg the size of Delaware recently broke away from western Antarctica and is now floating in the ocean. While, without doubt, a major event, said Associate Professor of Earth and Oceanographic ...

The crack in the Larsen C ice shelf is now about 120 miles long, and only eight miles remain until the crack cuts all the way across, producing an iceberg about the size of the state of Delaware.

In 2002, NASA released dramatic images that showed a portion of Antarctica's Larsen B ice shelf collapse and disappear. Now, the space agency says what's left of the massive feature will be gone ...

Dr. Wille said the larger Larsen C shelf, which is still mostly intact and, at about 17,000 square miles, is the fourth-largest ice shelf in Antarctica, could eventually suffer the same fate as A ...

They warned that this event would leave the ice shelf less stable and at risk of following the same fate as Larsen A and B, the latter of which disintegrated in 2002 after a large iceberg broke away.

Image showing how the Larsen C ice shelf has grown. Project Midas . A similar calving event took place at Larsen B in 2002 and 2003 and the ice shelf has been weakening ever since.

The last time a large iceberg calved from Antarctica was in 2002, when a chunk about half the size of the Larsen C iceberg calved from a different ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula, Larsen B ...