Mysterious 'crater' on Antarctica indication of vulnerable ice sheet (Update)
East Antarctica's massive ice sheet may be more exposed to global warming than long assumed, according to a study Monday that shows how strong winds can erode ice shelves that help hold it in place.
View ArticleGiant iceberg set to calve from Larsen C ice shelf
A huge iceberg, roughly the size of Norfolk, looks set to break away from the Larsen C ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula. Larsen C is more than twice the size of Wales. Satellite observations from...
View ArticleHuge Antarctic ice block set to break off: scientists
A massive ice block nearly 100 times the area of Manhattan is poised to break off Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf, scientists reported Friday.
View ArticleScientists watch growing Antarctic crack but aren't alarmed
Scientists are watching, but not alarmed by, a growing crack at the edge of a key floating ice shelf in Antarctica.
View ArticleChanging atmospheric conditions may contribute to stronger ocean waves in...
Over the past few years, a large fracture has grown across a large floating ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula. The world is watching the ice shelf, now poised to break off an iceberg the size of...
View ArticleMassive Antarctic ice shelf ready to break apart
A chunk of ice half the size of Jamaica which is breaking away from West Antarctica is now attached to its parent ice shelf just by a thread, scientists reported Friday.
View ArticleImage: Antarctica's changing Larsen Ice Shelf
The Larsen Ice Shelf is situated along the northeastern coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, one of the fastest-warming places on the planet. In the past three decades, two large sections of the ice shelf...
View ArticleSwedish supermarket tests lasers to label organic produce
Something high-tech is happening in the produce aisle at some Swedish supermarkets, where laser marks have replaced labels on the organic avocados and sweet potatoes.
View ArticleScientists report ocean data from under Greenland's Petermann Glacier
In August 2015, University of Delaware oceanographer Andreas Muenchow and colleagues deployed the first UD ocean sensors underneath Petermann Glacier in North Greenland, which connects the great...
View ArticleImage: Glacial 'aftershock' spawns Antarctic iceberg
Pine Island Glacier has shed another block of ice into Antarctic waters. The loss was tiny compared to the icebergs that broke off in 2014 and 2015, but the event is further evidence of the ice shelf's...
View ArticleLocal weather impacts melting of one of Antarctica's fastest-retreating glaciers
Local weather plays an important part in the retreat of the ice shelves in West Antarctica, according to new research published in the journal Nature Communications.
View ArticleCopernicus Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 warn of dangerous Antarctic ice crack
Following the appearance of a large crack in the ice shelf close to the Halley VI research station in Antarctica, information from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 satellites helped to decide...
View ArticleThere's a giant crack in an Antarctic ice shelf. Should we be worried?
An accelerating crack in the ice shelf known as Larsen C, the fourth largest ice shelf in Antarctica, has grown by 17 miles since the beginning of December, according to multiple news reports,...
View ArticleA new long-term ecological research site announced for the northeast U.S. shelf
The Atlantic Ocean off the Northeast U.S. coast is known for its productive fisheries and abundant harvests. As in other coastal oceans, human activities, short-term environmental variability, and...
View ArticleUGA Skidaway Institute starts study on dynamic Cape Hatteras waters
Sometimes called the "graveyard of the Atlantic" because of the large number of shipwrecks there, the waters off Cape Hatteras on the North Carolina coast are some of the least understood on U.S.'s...
View ArticleResearchers unravel the drivers of large iceberg movement
When, in the foreseeable future, a tabular iceberg nearly seven times the size of Berlin breaks off the Larsen C Ice Shelf in the Antarctic, it will begin a journey, the course of which climate...
View ArticleWater is streaming across Antarctica: New survey finds liquid flow more...
In the first such continent-wide survey, scientists have found extensive drainages of meltwater flowing over parts of Antarctica's ice during the brief summer. Researchers already knew such features...
View ArticleVideo: Larsen-C ice shelf crack
The Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite mission is monitoring the growing crack in Antarctica's Larsen-C ice shelf. When the ice shelf breaks off or 'calves', it will create one of the largest icebergs...
View ArticleAnti-cancer nutrients in salad leaves increase during postharvest shelf life
Anti-cancer compounds in rocket salad leaves have been found to increase during postharvest shelf life, countering the idea that nutritional content decreases during commercial processing.
View ArticleWarm winds: New insight into what weakens Antarctic ice shelves
New research describes for the first time the role that warm, dry winds play in influencing the behaviour of Antarctic ice shelves. Presenting this week at a European conference scientists from British...
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