With the breakup of large pieces of ice in late August this year, the tributary of the Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden glacier, known as the Spalte glacier, no longer exists. Photo: Copernicus Sentinel-2, ESA Global warming is constantly gnawing away at glaciers, ice shelves...
The satellite image shows the Pine Island glacier in 2011, when a 30-kilometer-long crack formed and led to the calving of a 720-square-kilometer iceberg. The glacier itself is about 250 kilometers long and its catchment area is about 10 percent of the West Antarctic...
The research expedition led the Japanese scientists to the Shirase Glacier in Lützow-Holm Bay in East Antarctica. Normally, the bay is inaccessible to ships even in summer, because the sea ice which is connected to the land, also called fast ice, makes it impossible...
