The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest chunk of ice on Antarctica, at roughly the size of France. Scientists have known that ice streams have a tendency to lurch at least once a day with the tides ...

The biggest ice shelf in Antarctica is slipping — a first-of-its-kind discovery related to our warming world. A study published in Geophysical Research Letters in March showed that the Ross Ice ...

A team of scientists, led by British Antarctic Survey (BAS), are travelling on board the RRS James Clark Ross. Sea ice ... all the stops to get us to the ice shelf, but our progress became ...

Larsen C lies next to a smaller ice shelf that disintegrated in 2002 after developing a crack similar to the one now growing in Larsen C. Map of Antarctica showing the amount of melting of ice ...