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Old Antarctic photos help University of Copenhagen scientists trace ice shelf collapse and predict future sea level rise.
Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf in Antarctica, about the same size as the country of France. It is located in the Ross Sea and extends into the Southern Ocean.
A long-lost photo snapped from a Navy plane in 1966 has become the unlikely key to understanding how Antarcticas ...
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Indy100 on MSNPhenomenal 'lobster-like creatures' discovered more than 1,500 feet into Antarctic iceScientists have made an astonishing discovery after finding lobster-like creatures beneath the depths of the Antarctic ice.
The front cliff of the Ross Ice Shelf towers high above the 6,000-ton icebreaker, the Nathaniel B. Palmer, in the background. But 90 percent of its thickness lies underwater.
The Ross Ice Shelf, a platform of ice measuring nearly 200,000 square miles, moves suddenly like plate tectonics that cause earthquakes, say scientists at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
On 28 November 1966, an American airplane flies over the Antarctic Peninsula just south of the southernmost tip of Chile. On ...
Ross Ice Shelf frontal zone subjected to increasing melting by ocean surface waters. Sci Adv. 2024;10(45):eado6429. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.ado6429. This article has been republished from the following ...
New research has found a "missing piece of the puzzle" of West Antarctic Ice Sheet melt, revealing that the collapse of the ice sheet in the Ross Sea region can be prevented—if we keep to a low ...
Tipping point: Ocean warming around Antarctica is accelerating the melting of ice shelves which buttress the continent and help to slow sea-level rise. Photo / Getty Images Looking out from the ...
University of East Anglia researchers found that warming waters are melting the Ross Ice Shelf from below. Over 45 years, heat transported into the ice shelf cavity has increased, driven by Ekman ...
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