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A 1550 square km (963 sq mi.) iceberg, designated A81 broke off Antarctica’s Brunt Ice Shelf. A time-lapse of the 'calving ...
R esearchers from the University of Copenhagen have found decades-old aerial photos that are helping them better understand ...
Mike Lanchin hears from the leading glaciologist Pedro Svarka who saw it happen. Photo: Satellite images showing the collapse of the Larsen B ice shelf in early 2002 (Science Photo Library) ...
This image of the Larsen Ice Shelf B was taken in 2002 by the satellite Envisat. Earlier levels extents are marked. Since Envisat was launched in 2002, the ice shelf has declined further.ESA ...
Melting lakes on ice shelves can widen cracks within them - new research shows how these lakes change across the world’s largest sheet.
To explore that possible link, Wille and his colleagues analysed weather and climate data along with satellite images to spot atmospheric rivers that reached Antarctica between 2000 and 2020.
Scientists are concerned because an ice shelf the size of New York City collapsed in East Antarctica, an area that had long been thought to be stable.
By comparison, the late, great iceberg A-68—now a shattered mess off the coast of South Georgia island—was nearly five times bigger when it calved from Antarctica’s Larsen C Ice Shelf in 2017.
New map shows vulnerability of Antarctic ice to self-fracking Over half of the ice shelves seem susceptible to process that doomed Larsen B.
Satellite company Planet Labs Inc. released the satellite images Monday, showing some of the final days of the Milne Ice Shelf. It once sat along the northern edge of Ellesmere Island in Canada.