by Beth Holmes | Apr 4, 2022 | Climate Change, Environmental hazards
The Conger ice shelf has collapsed just before a record-setting Antarctic heat wave, concerning scientists about what is to come. East Antarctica saw record temperatures in mid-March. Concordia station, the French-Italian research facility on one of the summits of the...
by Beth Holmes | Jun 14, 2021 | Climate Change, Environmental hazards
The Pine Island Glacier is one of the largest bodies of ice in Antarctica, and one of the most active. It moves as rapidly as 4,000 meters a year (2.49 miles), and together with the Thwaites Ice Stream is the frozen version of a watershed for as much as 5 percent of...
by Admin | Jan 30, 2019 | Climate Change, Environmental hazards
Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica has a problem: it has a cavity two thirds the area of Manhattan and almost 1,000 feet tall between the bottom of the glacier and the bedrock below. Unfortunately, unlike cavities in your teeth, this one can’t be filled. The...
by Admin | Jul 19, 2017 | Climate Change
You’d have to be living under a rock not to know that a 1 trillion-ton iceberg calved off the Larsen C Ice Shelf of Antarctica some time between July 10 and July 12. But what does this mean in terms of the Earth’s climate? Did the release of the iceberg mean that the...
by Admin | Jul 5, 2017 | Climate Change
In January of 2016, an area of roughly 300,000 square miles—twice the size of California—in Antarctica had an extreme melting event. The cause of the melt was warm winds blowing over the continent forced by an especially strong El Niño. The warm spell lasted more than...
