No time to freeze: Fragile ctenophores, or comb jellies, floating under the ice and catching small creatures such as crabs and fish larvae with their sticky tentacles. On the east coast of Greenland, a thick layer of ice forms on the sea every winter. Shipping comes...
Tabular icebergs are parts of ice shelves that protrude into the sea along the coast in Antarctica and slow down the glaciers behind them. Large icebergs like this one with an edge length of more than 30 kilometers are not only pretty photo motifs, but also objects of...
The ice melange that repairs large cracks in the Antarctic ice shelf like a glue. It consists of a combination of ice shelf fragments, blown snow and frozen seawater. Photo: Beck / NASA Operation IceBridge Many Antarctic ice shelves have lost massive volume in recent...
Here it is: Iceberg A76 from the Ronne Ice Shelf. At just under 170 km long and 25 km wide, the colossus has secretly risen to become what is currently the largest iceberg in the world. Since it is currently winter, recordings are only known from satellites. Image:...
The iceberg at the north end of the Brunt Ice Shelf has now broken loose. Its area of around 1,270 square kilometres is about the size of the city of Los Angeles in the USA, slightly smaller than the canton of Aargau in Switzerland and about half the size of Saarland....
