Antarctica's massive ice shelves, those vast floating platforms of ice, are destabilizing at an alarming rate due to ocean ...
Antarctica's ice sheet was formed by thousands of years of accumulated and compacted snow. Along the coast the ice gradually floats out onto the sea, forming massive ledges known as ice shelves.
The Ross Ice Shelf, a platform of ice measuring nearly 200,000 square miles, moves suddenly like plate tectonics that cause ...
An international team of polar scientists found that melting in ... losses in West Antarctica and the Antarctic Peninsular to changes in regional floating-ice shelves, which can provide a buffer ...
Scientists have just uncovered a troubling cycle that’s accelerating the Antarctica ice melting even faster than we thought, ...
"We found that the whole shelf suddenly moves about 6 to 8 centimeters [2.4 to 3.1 inches] once or twice a day, triggered by a slip on an ice stream that flows into the ice shelf," says geophysicist ...
While the Arctic was melting rapidly ... and explains why the region is warming up four times faster than the global average. Recently, Antarctica has begun warming at twice the global average ...
Alas, Antarctica, which accounts for 90 percent of the world’s ice, is not melting. Just the opposite ... free at the end of summer by 2012, much faster than previous predictions.” ...