Antarctic ice shelves have been losing volume over the past 25 years, releasing huge quantities of freshwater into the Southern Ocean. Image: Michael Wenger The Antarctic ice shelves are melting rapidly, particularly in the west of the continent. Research based on...
Wide, white and frozen. This is the surface of an ice shelf and the ice sheet behind it in Antarctica. But thanks to ice-penetrating radar and satellites, researchers are discovering that a whole other world lies hidden beneath the ice. Image: Dr Michael Wenger From...
The Pine Island Glacier and the ice shelf in front of it have been under scientific study for years. If the ice shelf disappears, the ice masses behind it will flow unchecked into the Southern Ocean. This is likely to raise sea levels by up to half a meter. Photo:...
The candidate island was already visible on satellite images in 1989. Only after the collapse of the Conger ice shelf does it become clear that the ice mound must be an island. Photo: Joshua Stevens/Landsat/ICESat-2 Where snow and ice cover the landscape and the...
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...
