Much of this uncertainty is because the ocean processes that control the fate of the sheet occur on an incredibly small scale ...

Satellite data from early 2025 revealed extensive melting at Antarctica’s Amery Ice Shelf, highlighting its vulnerability. As ...

The Antarctic Ice Sheet's floating shelves are thinning due to melting from below, impacting ocean dynamics and sea levels. The Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf remains stable, but climate models suggest ...

"The Amery is unique among Antarctic ice shelves given its long interior extent—greater than 500 kilometers (300 miles)—and extensive bordering bedrock exposures," Christopher Shuman ...

Meltwater has been observed atop the Amery Ice Shelf in Antarctica, as evidenced by recent imagery obtained from the ...

Unlike some other Antarctic ice shelves, FRIS currently appears stable in our warming world. However, previous ocean modeling ...

Thompson said the ice shelves act “like dams by holding back the flow of ice from the Antarctic continent into the ocean”, and the researchers wanted to understand their structure and stability.

Floating ice shelves represent the greatest unexplored habitat in the Southern Ocean. They cover more that 1.5 million km2 of the Antarctic continental shelf, but only a total area of around the ...

NASA’s annual Antarctic Long-Duration Balloon Campaign, launching from the Ross Ice Shelf, will carry groundbreaking experiments like GAPS, aiming to detect anti-matter particles linked to dark ...

The Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf in Antarctica ... Kaitlin Naughten, an ocean-ice modeler at the British Antarctic Survey who was not involved in the study, told Live Science in an email that ...