Ice Shelves
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North Greenland's Ice Shelves Shrink By A Staggering 35% In 45 Years, Study Finds
The largest floating ice shelves in the polar ice sheet have lost more than a third of their volume since 1978.
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Strong Winds Behind Massive Antarctic Ice Shelves Breaking Off
Strong winds are causing vast Antarctic ice shelves to break off, such as the trillion-tonne iceberg that recently snapped away from the South Pole, scientists say.
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As Trump Mulls Paris Climate Deal, Antarctica Could Soon Break Off A Delaware-Sized Iceberg
A long-growing crack in the Larsen C ice shelf, one of Antarctica's largest floating platforms of ice, appears to be nearing its endgame.
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Enormous Antarctic Ice Shelf Rift Grows By Another 6 Miles
A more than 100-mile-long crack in one of Antarctica's largest ice shelves grew another 6 miles in little over two weeks this month, British scientists reported Thursday. That's on top of an 11-mile growth that occurred in the second two weeks of December - representing a 17 mile total advance in not much more than a month.
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A Huge Crack Is Spreading Across One Of Antarctica's Biggest Ice Shelves
For some time, scientists who focus on Antarctica have been watching the progression of a large crack in one of the world's great ice shelves - Larsen C, the most northern major ice shelf of the Antarctic peninsula, and the fourth largest Antarctic ice shelf overall.
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Antarctica's Ice Is Being Carved Up From Below
Two years ago, a pair of scientific studies documented that the glaciers of West Antarctica, which hold back more than 3 meters (nearly 10 feet) of potential sea level rise, are melting and retreating from below. The cause? It appears that these glaciers, which are perched on the seafloor deep below the ocean surface, are being lapped at by flows o...
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Climate Change May Lead to Substantial Rise in Sea Level
A jump in global average temperatures of 1.5 degrees Celsius to 2 degrees Celsius will see the collapse of Antarctic ice shelves and lead to hundreds and even thousands of years of sea level rise, a new research has warned.
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North Greenland's Ice Shelves Shrink By A Staggering 35% In 45 Years, Study Finds
The largest floating ice shelves in the polar ice sheet have lost more than a third of their volume since 1978.
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Strong Winds Behind Massive Antarctic Ice Shelves Breaking Off
Strong winds are causing vast Antarctic ice shelves to break off, such as the trillion-tonne iceberg that recently snapped away from the South Pole, scientists say.
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As Trump Mulls Paris Climate Deal, Antarctica Could Soon Break Off A Delaware-Sized Iceberg
A long-growing crack in the Larsen C ice shelf, one of Antarctica's largest floating platforms of ice, appears to be nearing its endgame.
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Enormous Antarctic Ice Shelf Rift Grows By Another 6 Miles
A more than 100-mile-long crack in one of Antarctica's largest ice shelves grew another 6 miles in little over two weeks this month, British scientists reported Thursday. That's on top of an 11-mile growth that occurred in the second two weeks of December - representing a 17 mile total advance in not much more than a month.
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A Huge Crack Is Spreading Across One Of Antarctica's Biggest Ice Shelves
For some time, scientists who focus on Antarctica have been watching the progression of a large crack in one of the world's great ice shelves - Larsen C, the most northern major ice shelf of the Antarctic peninsula, and the fourth largest Antarctic ice shelf overall.
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Antarctica's Ice Is Being Carved Up From Below
Two years ago, a pair of scientific studies documented that the glaciers of West Antarctica, which hold back more than 3 meters (nearly 10 feet) of potential sea level rise, are melting and retreating from below. The cause? It appears that these glaciers, which are perched on the seafloor deep below the ocean surface, are being lapped at by flows o...
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Climate Change May Lead to Substantial Rise in Sea Level
A jump in global average temperatures of 1.5 degrees Celsius to 2 degrees Celsius will see the collapse of Antarctic ice shelves and lead to hundreds and even thousands of years of sea level rise, a new research has warned.
