The pristine world of Antarctica, a kingdom of ice and snow, is facing a hidden danger: ocean currents. Its massive ice ...
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 ...
Look out over Antarctica in the summer ... "In the absence of sea ice, the ocean swell can break apart ice shelves faster than they otherwise would," Purich said. "Once the shelves have broken ...
"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 ...
Scientists have just uncovered a troubling cycle that’s accelerating the Antarctica ice melting even faster than we thought, ...
Ceccolini is co-chief executive of British start-up Real Ice, which aims to thicken Arctic ice shelves and strengthen ... equipment than reversing the melting of Arctic ice, which appears to ...
On top of this melting, warming ... he says that benefit is being increasingly countered as Antarctica’s ice sheets and shelves melt faster than ever before. Sitting in the middle of this ...