Researchers think that shifting ocean currents brought warmer seawater to the area and contributed to the collapse. The collapse raises new concerns about East Antarctica. The Conger ice shelf is near ...

Scientists have determined that at least six new aquatic species have been thriving under an Antarctic ice shelf.

After a chunk of an ice shelf in the Antarctic broke off, scientists were able explore an unseen ecosystem below the shelf ...

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 ...

In January 2025, A-84 an iceberg the size of Chicago broke away from a massive floating glacier attached to the Antarctic Peninsula ice sheet. Now ... flow from the ice shelf, known as the ...

ROV SuBastian/Schmidt Ocean Institute In January, an iceberg the size of Chicago broke away from a massive ice shelf in Antarctica, revealing an underwater world never before seen by humans.