by Environmental News | Jul 19, 2017 | Petition For Change
Author: Eric Holthaus / Source: Grist The new rift in Larsen C emerged days after a Delaware-sized iceberg broke off from the ice shelf. Scientists aren’t totally sure of the implications, but it seems the ice shelf isn’t quite done breaking apart yet. The...
by Environmental News | Jul 12, 2017 | Petition For Change
Author: Eric Holthaus / Source: Grist One of the sleds that scientists used to drag radar instruments across the Larsen C ice shelf. One of the largest icebergs ever recorded broke off Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf earlier this week, according to satellite...
by Environmental News | Jul 12, 2017 | Our Planet
Author: Nicola Davis / Source: the Guardian Vast iceberg splits from Antarctic ice shelf A giant iceberg twice the size of Luxembourg has broken off an ice shelf on the Antarctic peninsula and is now adrift in the Weddell Sea. Reported to be “hanging by a...
by Environmental News | Jun 9, 2017 | Our Planet
Author: Catherine Rice / Source: Nature World News (Photo : NASA/John Sonntag/Wikimedia Commons) Scientists are watching intently as a titanic section of Larsen C, the fourth largest ice shelf in Antarctica, prepares to break off into the sea as an iceberg...
by Environmental News | Jun 1, 2017 | Petition For Change
Author: Amelia Urry / Source: Grist The widening rift in the Larsen C ice shelf in West Antarctica has reached a (relative, for ice) fever pitch in the past few months, stretching for more than 110 miles and gaping more than 1,000 feet across. In just the...
