Around 700 Emperor penguin chicks crowd the edge of the ice shelf in Atka Bay. If they want to get food, they have no choice but to jump. Unique footage document this extraordinary behavior for the first time. Photo: Screenshot National Geographic / Bertie Gregory...
Ice shelves form a barrier for the glaciers behind them. Climate change with rising temperatures is making many of them more unstable. Photo: Michael Wenger In 2002, the Larsen B ice shelf, an area of 3,250 square kilometers, collapsed on the Antarctic Peninsula. In...
The Larsen C Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula (smooth, white surface). In recent years, large blocks of ice have repeatedly broken off. The Larsen-A and B ice shelves, which were located in the bays north of Larsen-C, collapsed because of...
The breakup of the giant iceberg A-68 from the Larsen-C Ice Shelf indicated three years earlier by a large crack. The map shows the location of the ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula. Photo: Rosey Grant / British Antarctic Survey; Map: Cook & Vaughan, 2009 ...
On the seafloor beneath the ice shelf in the Antarctic Atka Bay, researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute and the British Antarctic Survey found an unexpectedly large diversity of living organisms. Photo: Alfred Wegener Institute There is more marine life under...