Bordering the southern Weddell Sea, the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf (FRIS) is Antarctica ... “This warm water may be a warning sign, but may also just be normal variability in the region.

As the New York Times reports, the event is an early warning sign of ... climate change causing the Antarctic to melt at a record pace. According to Meijers, ice shelves have lost around 6,000 ...

Have you ever wondered what Antarctica ... ice. "The latest satellite data have also more accurately recorded the height and shape of the ice sheet and the thickness of the floating ice shelves ...

Credit: nasa/John Sonntag The breakup of the massive Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica is getting closer and will eventually produce an iceberg the size of Delaware prowling the Southern Ocean ...

The researchers focused on five of Antarctica's ice shelves—floating platforms of ice that extend over the ocean from land-based glaciers and hold back the bulk of Antarctica's glacial ice.

“Our teams at BAS have been prepared for the calving of an iceberg from Brunt Ice Shelf for years,” said the British Antarctic Survey ... will give us early warning if the calving of this ...