Antarctic shelf ice consists of giant floating ice sheets that can span thousands of square kilometres. Pieces break off at their edges, forming icebergs in the ocean. In order to more effectively predict these break-offs, ...
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Over the last few months, a chunk of Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf has been hanging on precariously as a deep crack cut across the ice. Witnessed by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission, a lump of ice more than twice the size ...
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Jul 12, 2017
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A chunk of ice bigger than the US state of Delaware is hanging by a thread from the West Antarctic ice shelf, satellite images revealed Wednesday.
Earth Sciences
Jul 5, 2017
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An expanse of ice roughly the size of Delaware is close to breaking off from the warming Antarctic ice shelf to form one of the world's largest-ever icebergs, scientists said Thursday.
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Jun 1, 2017
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By the second half of this century, rising air temperatures above the Weddell Sea could set off a self-amplifying meltwater feedback cycle under the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, ultimately causing the second-largest ice shelf ...
Earth Sciences
May 11, 2017
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To outer space and the deep ocean, add "beneath the ice" to the list of rarely charted frontiers of science exploration.
Earth Sciences
May 9, 2017
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New research describes for the first time the role that warm, dry winds play in influencing the behaviour of Antarctic ice shelves. Presenting this week at a European conference scientists from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 25, 2017
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In the first such continent-wide survey, scientists have found extensive drainages of meltwater flowing over parts of Antarctica's ice during the brief summer. Researchers already knew such features existed, but assumed they ...
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Apr 19, 2017
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An accelerating crack in the ice shelf known as Larsen C, the fourth largest ice shelf in Antarctica, has grown by 17 miles since the beginning of December, according to multiple news reports, including a recent article in ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 24, 2017
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A chunk of ice half the size of Jamaica which is breaking away from West Antarctica is now attached to its parent ice shelf just by a thread, scientists reported Friday.
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Jan 20, 2017
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