In the days around March 15, the Conger Ice Shelf collapsed completely, releasing a huge iceberg about 550 square kilometers in size. Photo: US National Ice Center / ESA Just last week, weather stations reported record temperatures in the Arctic and Antarctic. As now...
The Ross Ice Shelf in eastern Antarctica is the largest ice shelf in the world. Here, too, researchers fear increased melting, as on other Antarctic ice shelves. Using new probes both in the water and from the air, an international team of scientists has now...
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...
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....
Ice shelves are quite flat at their surface due to wind and weather. They are fed by the glaciers of the surrounding Antarctic continent, which flow together in the bays. But beneath the surface of the ice shelves, on the ocean floor, things look much richer,...
