Antarctic ice shelves are shrinking mainly due to frequent small calving events, while major iceberg break-offs remain rare ...

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 ...

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

These cracks are the precursor to ice shelf calving, in which large chunks of ice break off a glacier and fall into the sea. Such events happen often at Pine Island Glacier—the iceberg observed ...

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 ...

It found that while there has been broad ice shelf loss due to warming temperatures, the frequency and size of major iceberg calving events has not changed significantly. This study was led by ...

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

They also found that atmospheric rivers played a role in triggering 13 of 21 iceberg calving events between ... Intense atmospheric rivers can weaken ice shelf stability at the Antarctic Peninsula ...

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.