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

An international team of Earth and environmental scientists has found evidence that the Ronne Ice Shelf in the West Antarctic ...

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

Arecent study conducted by University of Florida geologists and geographers has shed new light on the effects of climate change on Antarctic ice shelves. It found that while there has been broad ice ...

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

Calving, when chunks of ice break off from ice shelves to form ... more numerous small calving events have dominated Antarctic ice shelf loss over the last half century. This study was published ...

Measuring roughly 1,350 square miles (3,500 square kilometers) across, A23a is the world's largest and oldest iceberg ...

Arecent study conducted by University of Florida geologists and geographers has shed new light on the effects of climate change on Antarctic ice ...

The world's biggest iceberg - more than twice the size of London - could drift towards a remote island where a scientist ...

Or it could strike the sloping bottom and get stuck for months or break up into pieces ... In January 2023, a massive piece of Antarctica's Brunt Ice Shelf — a chunk about the size of two ...