Recent research has uncovered alarming evidence on how ice shelves are not just bending under pressure but are actively fracturing.
In parts of Antarctica, especially in the west, these warm waters are eating the undersides of the ice shelves―the main ...
Robert O'Brien was recently appointed as the Director of the Center for Space Nuclear Research with the Universities Space Research Association.
When air temperatures in Antarctica rise and glacier ice melts, water can pool on the surface of floating ice shelves, ...
The new work may help explain how the Larsen B Ice Shelf abruptly collapsed in 2002. In the months before its catastrophic breakup, thousands of meltwater lakes littered the ice shelf’s surface, which ...
Heavy pooling meltwater can fracture ice, potentially leading to ice shelf collapse. When air temperatures in Antarctica rise and glacier ice melts, water can pool on the surface of floating ice ...
iceberg, designated A81 broke off Antarctica’s Brunt Ice Shelf. A time-lapse of the 'calving process ... normal but no one else understands I Asked 4 Chefs What Their Favorite Fast Food Cheeseburger ...
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, USA ...