The trouble has to do with its ice shelf, a frozen ledge at the edge of the Pine Island Glacier. The ice shelf helps stabilize and contain the vast flow of ice behind it. But now it’s crumbling ...

The losses measured from calving outpaced natural ice shelf replenishment so greatly that researchers found it unlikely Antarctica can return to pre-2000 glacier levels by the end of this century.

Learn about the new technique being used to study cracks that have formed on Antarctica's unstable Doomsday Glacier.

Satellite video shows the ice shelf holding the Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica back from the sea is breaking up much faster than before. A study Friday shows the ice shelf has shrunk by one ...

That ice shelf has retreated by 12 miles (20 kilometers) between 2017 and 2020, according to a study in Friday’s Science Advances. And the crumbling shelf was caught on time-lapse video from a ...

The update on the Pine Island Glacier comes from the University of Washington, where researchers shared a video of iceberg loss from the ice shelf from January 2015 to March 2020.

The Thwaites Glacier is an ice shelf the size of Florida. It sits on the western edge of Antarctica, and it's responsible for 4% of the world's sea level rise. That's earned it the nickname The ...

A critical Antarctic glacier is looking more vulnerable as satellite images show the ice shelf that blocks it from collapsing into the sea is breaking up much faster than before and spawning huge ...

An ice shelf protecting a key Antarctic glacier is breaking up faster than before, scientists say. Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 68°F. Thursday, May 15th 2025 ...

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with glaciologist Erin Pettit about her research on the Thwaites Glacier, a bellwether ice shelf that could fail in the next five years and accelerate global sea rise.

That ice shelf has retreated by 12 miles between 2017 and 2020, according to a study in Friday’s Science Advances. Ice shelf protecting Antarctic glacier is breaking up faster ...