Antarctica’s ocean flip: Satellites catch sudden salt surge melting ice from below Date: July 2, 2025 Source: University of Southampton Summary: A massive and surprising change is unfolding ...

New research has, for the first time, tracked ice shelf, sea ice and ocean swell wave conditions over multiple years in the lead-up to three large-scale iceberg "calving" events in Antarctica ...

An iceberg calved from the Larsen C ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula in 2017. Mario Tama/Getty Images ...

The Antarctic ice shelves play a significant role in stabilizing the grounded ice sheet. The collapses of the northern Larsen Ice shelf in the context of global warming highlighted the importance of ...

Pine Island Glacier, one of the fastest-shrinking glaciers in Antarctica, hastened its slide into the sea between 2017 and 2020, when one-fifth of its associated ice shelf broke off as massive ...