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New research has, for the first time, tracked ice shelf, sea ice and ocean swell wave conditions over multiple years in the ...
On 28 November 1966, an American airplane flies over the Antarctic Peninsula just south of the southernmost tip of Chile. On ...
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In 2022, an international team of scientists sent a 20-foot-long autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) named “Ran” to traverse ...
Item 1 of 2 An aerial view of the 200-foot-tall (60-meter-tall) front of the Getz Ice Shelf with cracks, in Antarctica, in this 2016 handout image.
On Jan. 1, NASA satellite technology captured surreal images of blue meltwater ponds along the Amery Ice Shelf, the third largest in Antarctica.These pools, which normally develop from Nov. 1 ...
More than 40% of Antarctica’s ice shelves have shrunk over the past 25 years, a study published Thursday found, as scientists warn they’re losing volume with no sign of recovery because of the ...
The Pine Island Ice Shelf, about 1,300 feet thick over most of its area, is a dramatic case: It thinned by an average of 150 feet from 1994 to 2012.
The biggest ice shelf in Antarctica is slipping — a first-of-its-kind discovery related to our warming world. A study published in Geophysical Research Letters in March showed that the Ross Ice ...
The Amery Ice Shelf on the other side of Antarctica gained 1.3 trillion tons (1.2 trillion metric tons) of ice as a result of the cold water, even though the region lost a huge slab of ice when it ...
What Is Happening to Ice Shelves? Ice shelves have always melted, but in an era of warming polar environments, it’s now happening at a faster rate.Most melting happens where the ice meets the ocean ...
Ice shelves’ net gain of 661 gigatonnes of ice mass between 2009 and 2019 does not negate the net loss, opens new tab of 2,440 gigatonnes of ice mass between 2002 and 2024.