A rift is extending farther across the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica, threatening to set in motion the collapse of the entire shelf. A large rift is widening across an increasingly fragile ...

Rift in the Larsen C Ice Shelf as seen from a NASA aircraft on Nov. 10, 2016. Credit: nasa/John Sonntag The breakup of the massive Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica is getting closer and will ...

Melting on the Antarctic Ice Sheet for the 2024 to 2025 season began with above average melt extents in all regions, but melt ...

The new study, published in the Journal of Glaciology, may help explain how the Larsen B Ice Shelf abruptly collapsed in 2002. In the months before its catastrophic breakup, thousands of meltwater ...

"The ecosystem is pretty resilient." Several ice shelves -- Prince Gustav Channel, Larsen Inlet, Larsen A, Larsen B, Wordie, Muller and Jones -- have collapsed in the past three decades ...

A crack in an Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf birthed one of the largest icebergs ever recorded, scientists announced Wednesday morning. "The calving of this iceberg leaves the Larsen C Ice Shelf ...

All of the region’s ice shelves, including Larsens A, B, and C, impede the movement of Antarctic glaciers, which, if they float into the ocean, can hasten sea-level rise. The Larsen A ice shelf ...

Several ice shelves -- Prince Gustav Channel, Larsen Inlet, Larsen A, Larsen B, Wordie, Muller and Jones -- have collapsed in the past three decades, the British Antarctic Survey said. Scientists ...

Scientists have determined that at least six new aquatic species have been thriving under an Antarctic ice shelf.

Icebergs calve from Antarctica all the time, but because this one is particularly large its path across the ocean needs to be monitored Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf deep crack continues to ...