An ice core drilled from the ice sheet near the bordering Ronne Ice Shelf suggests that, contrary to some model reconstructions, the ice shelf survived this period at almost its current extent.

Blue puddles of water were visible atop the Amery Ice Shelf in East Antarctica after periods of record melting. Satellite data from early 2025 revealed extensive melting at Antarctica’s Amery Ice ...

Getz and Sulzberger Ice Shelves, and most importantly, much of the East Antarctic Plateau and higher elevations of West Antarctica. The 2024 surface mass balance, which is the sum of snowfall and ...

Antarctica's ice shelves are melting more rapidly than previously known because of climate change, according to a new US Geological Survey report prepared in close collaboration with the British ...

Meltwater has been observed atop the Amery Ice Shelf in Antarctica, as evidenced by recent imagery obtained from the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8. On January 1, these images revealed the ...

If you were to walk out onto the ice, it’s hard to know where the shoreline lies. The biggest danger with shelf ice is how unstable it is. Shelf ice can collapse from a person walking on it ...

The continent’s ice shelves, large floating extensions of ice over the ocean, are of particular interest. Observations show that many of these ice shelves are thinning due to melting from below, with ...

Smaller calving events, not large icebergs, drive Antarctic ice sheet loss. Arecent study conducted by University of Florida geologists and geographers has shed new light on the effects of climate ...

LAKE MICHIGAN, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) -- With frigid temperatures in the area, you may begin to see ice on lakeshores called shelf ice. And while the shelf ice can make for a great view, Leland Fire ...