Wind causes the surface of the ice shelf to vibrate, creating a "singing" sound across the Texas-sized slab.

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 ...

A new study reveals how local factors influence the Ross Ice Shelf's stability, refining predictions of how it will change and influence sea rise in the future.

The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest chunk of ice on Antarctica, at roughly the size of France. Scientists have known that ice streams have a tendency to lurch at least once a day with the tides, but ...

This is because the Ross Ice Shelf and other ice shelf formations act as a barrier, holding back the ice streams on the Antarctic mainland and preventing them from melting as they flow into the sea.

In contrast, water underneath the Ross Ice Shelf — which acts as a buttress to stabilize the inland ice — remains cold. But will the Ross Ice Shelf melt? And, if so, when?

Old Antarctic photos help University of Copenhagen scientists trace ice shelf collapse and predict future sea level rise.

Exibindo todos artigos The front of the Ross Ice Shelf floats in the Ross Sea, Antarctica. Matt Siegfried/Scripps Institution of Oceanography 16 janeiro 2025 ...

The potential acceleration and eventual disintegration of the Ross Ice Shelf, leading to its movement into the sea, would have far-reaching consequences for ice coverage throughout the region.

Embark on a once-in-a-lifetime expedition voyage to East Antarctica and the Ross Sea – departing from Christchurch (Timaru) ...

Seafloor sediments from beneath the Ross Ice Shelf represent an archive of warmer periods in Earth’s past.