Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have found decades-old aerial photos that are helping them better understand the collapse of Antarctic ice shelves. The photos offer an unparalleled ...

Currently stable, the Ross Ice Shelf has collapsed during past warm periods in history, suggesting that it could happen again. Ice-shelf mass loss depends on temperature in the nearby ocean, but the ...

Ice-loving sea anemone discovered beneath the Ross Ice Shelf. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2014 / 01 / 140116130449.htm ...

The Ross Ice Shelf, a part of the Antarctic Ice Sheet that is floating on the ocean, measures several hundred meters thick and sits over 480,000 square kilometers, approximately the size of Spain.

Researchers Found A Way To Monitor Ross Ice Shelf From Afar By Shane McGlaun Oct. 17, 2018 7:14 am EST Direct study of Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf is difficult because of the extreme conditions at ...

But Antarctic sea ice has declined steeply since 2017, especially near the Ross Ice Shelf. Scientists recently reported that the cold, salty waterfall to the Antarctic seafloor is already starting ...

The researchers also pointed out that the Ross Ice Shelf is 100 times larger than ice shelves that have already melted away. This research has been published in the latest issue of the journal ...

May 28 (UPI) --New data collected by the ROSETTA-Ice project, a three-year survey of Antarctica's largest ice shelf, suggests unique geologic formations beneath the Ross Ice Shelf dictate the ...

The shelf, which can be up to 10,000 feet thick, is the largest of several that hold back West Antarctica's massive amounts of ice. If these were to collapse, global sea level would rise by ten feet.

The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf in the world. Located on the side of Antarctica closest to New Zealand, it spans an area about the size of Spain and has an average thickness of roughly ...

With a multi-institution interdisciplinary team, the four-year ROSETTA-Ice project assembled an unprecedented view of Antarctica’s largest ice shelf, in the Ross Sea. Ross Ice Shelf, which is larger ...

A University of Otago-led research team is about to embark on an epic Antarctic research expedition as part of efforts to better understand how the Ross Ice Shelf (RIS) will respond to global warming.