Larsen B Ice Shelf

According to a release by the BAS, the ice shelf has been slowly floating into the ocean for some time now. Larsen A broke down in 1995, and Larsen B in 2002, while the Larsen C Ice Shelf broke away in July 2017 and produced an iceberg A-68 the size of Luxembourg. Although the iceberg is massive, ...

In 2007, marine ecologist Julian Gutt of the Alfred Wegener Institute led an expedition to the Larsen B ice shelf to study the seafloor that had emerged from its ice shadow five years earlier. The researchers found strange new species, but also discovered that some pioneering critters had already moved in ...

It looks like the Larsen-C story might not be over yet.” As a reminder, following a similar event that saw the calving of a large iceberg back in 2002, the Larsen B ice shelf completely collapsed over a relatively short period of time — the calving event serving as the destabilization that set the whole collapse in ...

The huge iceberg that detached from the Larsen C ice shelf is travelling away from it, according to scientists that are tracking it. And ice shelf is continuing to change after the iceberg detached, with more cracks appearing in its surface. The Larsen C ice shelf lost 10 per cent of its surface when one of the ...

One of the world's largest icebergs broke off from Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf and attracted global attention this week, but the Larsen shelf's deterioration has been in progress for more than two decades. Its dramatic decline is documented in successive images from National Geographic Atlases of the ...

After months of expectation, a gigantic piece of the Larsen C ice shelf broke off Antarctica sometime between Monday and Wednesday, scientists at the Swansea University-led Midas project announced Wednesday. The final split was detected by NASA's Aqua satellite and freed a trillion ton iceberg into the ...

One of the largest icebergs ever recorded is about to break off an Antarctic ice shelf and float away. The separation of roughly 10 percent of the Antarctic Peninsula's Larsen C ice shelf—equivalent in size to the state of Delaware—from the main body is imminent. The “calving” event, as scientists call the ...

In the largest jump since January, the rift in the Larsen C Ice Shelf has grown an additional 17 km (11 miles) between May 25 and May 31 2017. ... the rift, and that Larsen C may eventually follow the example of its neighbor Larsen B, which disintegrated in 2002 following a similar rift-induced calving event.

That loss will alter ice shelf dynamics and could speed the demise of the rest of the ice shelf, similar to what happened to neighboring Larsen A and Larsen B. The Larsen ice shelf complex is located on the Antarctic Peninsula, a roughly 800-mile stretch of land sticking out in the Southern Ocean like a ...