While warming temperatures are driving a widespread loss of ice shelves, major calving events have not increased in frequency ...

Arecent study conducted by University of Florida geologists and geographers has shed new light on the effects of climate change on Antarctic ice shelves. It found that while there has been broad ice ...

Following the calving of the A-81 iceberg at the end of January 2023, the Brunt Ice Shelf is moving faster than before. It is currently moving approximately 4 meters a day towards the sea ...

But Oliver Marsh, a British Antarctic Survey glaciologist who has spent four seasons working on the Brunt Ice Shelf, said none of these factors appear to have caused the break. "Calving of these ...

And there is historic evidence to show the Brunt Ice Shelf has seen similar large calving events in the past. As Professor Gudmundsson explains: “Maps drawn by Shackleton and Wordie during their ...

There have been some enormous calving events that can destabilize ice shelves, and are a major source of uncertainty when it comes to forecasting future increases in sea levels. In 2017, an iceberg ...

The biggest iceberg on Earth is heading toward a remote island, creating a potential threat to penguins and seals inhabiting ...

Helen Fricker: "Iceberg calving is the natural background mass-loss process" In and of itself, probably very little. The Larsen C shelf is a mass of floating ice formed by glaciers that have ...

A23a, a massive iceberg nearly the size of Rhode Island, towering at 40 meters, is on a collision course with South Georgia.