When massive blocks of ice detach from glaciers, it is known as calving. This process is one of the main ways that glaciers lose mass, and has long been a dramatic visualization of changes in ice ...
October 16 marked the arrival of the first aircraft at Rothera Research Station and the departure of the Falklands-flagged ...
The Madingley-based organisation’s 2025/26 Antarctic field season is under way, marked by the arrival of the first aircraft ...
A diagram shows one way the curtains could prevent warm seawater from reaching the terminus of the glacier. Credit: Nature (2024). DOI: 10.1038/d41586-024-00119-3 New studies about the Thwaites ...
The world’s largest iceberg just formed after breaking off from Antarctica, according to the European Space Agency. The giant piece of ice is shaped like an ironing board and it’s about 105 miles in ...
Scientists are keeping a close eye on the Antarctic ice shelf as recent activity could soon cause rapid melting and rising sea levels. The sea ice in Antarctica has likely met its minimum extent for ...
Some places on planet Earth are inaccessible due to their difficult terrain. Experts studying planet life are not able to study them unless something reveals the underlying secrets. One such location ...
1,000,000,000,000 tons. That’s one trillion, with a “t” at the start. And that’s how much A23a, aka the world’s largest iceberg, weighs. It spans across about 1,418-sqaure-miles, or about three times ...
ANTARCTICA -- An iceberg nearly the size of Greater London broke off the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica on Sunday according to the British Antarctic Survey. Scientists first discovered significant ...
(ABC News) - An iceberg larger than New York City has broken off an ice shelf in Antarctica, scientists say. The 490-square mile glacier broke off the Brunt Ice Shelf, where the British Antarctic ...
A new, huge iceberg is expected to break off the Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica, once a newly discovered crack reaches the other side of the glacier's ice shelf. The crack was 18 miles long, 260 ...
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