Pine Island Glacier, one of the fastest-shrinking glaciers in Antarctica, hastened its slide into the sea between 2017 and ...

“It’s looking very likely that this process explains the collapse of the Larsen B Ice Shelf,” added Doug MacAyeal, University of Chicago Prof. Emeritus of Geophysical Sciences and co-author on the ...

Multidecadal pre- and post-collapse dynamics of the northern Larsen Ice Shelf. Earth and Planetary Science Letters , 2023; 609: 118077 DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118077 Cite This Page : ...

In 2002, an area of ice about the size of Rhode Island dramatically broke away from Antarctica as the Larsen B ice shelf collapsed. A new study of the conditions that led to the collapse may ...

The Larsen C Ice Shelf Collapse Is Just the Beginning—Antarctica Is Melting. The massive iceberg that broke off the Larsen C Ice Shelf may be a harbinger of a continent-wide collapse that would ...

These conditions were observed during the collapse of two of the peninsula’s ice shelves – Larsen A and B – in the summers of 1995 and 2002, respectively. And now, as the climate crisis is ...

An image of the Larsen B ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula in 2000, before its collapse in 2002. Gallo Images/Getty Images There are many ways these ice shelves can destabilize.

Their collapse could mean significant sea level rise. Atmospheric rivers are destabilizing ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula. Their collapse could mean significant sea level rise.

Satellite images showed the Larsen B Ice Shelf splintering and collapsing from Jan. 31 to April 13, 2002. ... And it’s these episodes of extreme events that lead to ice shelf collapse. ...

The Conger collapse “is one of the most significant collapse events anywhere in Antarctica since the early 2000s when the Larsen B ice shelf disintegrated,” said Catherine Colello Walker, an ...

“Although the Conger ice shelf was relatively small, it is one of the most significant collapse events anywhere in Antarctica since the early 2000s when the Larsen B ice shelf disintegrated, and ...