Larsen Inlet, Larsen A, Wordie, Muller and Jones ice shelves, as well as the Larsen B, which disappeared in just 30 days in 2002 ...

Hundreds of polar researchers issue an emergency statement calling for urgent action to deal with the impacts of climate ...

Perhaps you know the feeling: that moment when you see with your eyes something you have previously only seen in pictures. Before today, I knew the Larsen C ice shelf only from the satellite images we ...

Iceberg calving under warming climate conditions can reach catastrophic proportions. In 2002, a total of 3,250 square kilometers (1,255 square miles) of Antarctica's Larsen B Ice Shelf disintegrated; ...

On October 25, 2012, we published a set of images that shows how the Hektoria and Green glaciers on the Antarctic Peninsula have continued thinning since the Larsen-B ice shelf’s collapse in 2002.

In 2019, the U.S. Board on Geographic Names recognized Icebreaker Island, which in 1996 became isolated from the Larsen B ice shelf along the Antarctic Peninsula. And in 2020 researchers on a ship ...

New research reveals for the first time how a major Antarctic ice shelf has been subjected to increased melting by warming ocean waters over the last four decades. Scientists say the study -- the ...

The discovery is crucial to understanding how melting ice could influence global sea levels. An unexpected and previously unknown topography beneath Antarctica's floating ice shelves has come to ...

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Even without the -70 degree temperatures and 125-mile-per-hour winds that were possible on the ice shelf, the construction of Camp Century sounds like a total nightmare. The camp was built from ...