An iceberg the size of Chicago broke off am Antarctic ice shelf to reveal a thriving ecosystem underneath, according to ...

Kharagpur: New research on climate change published in ‘Communications Earth & Environment' — a peer-reviewed, open-access, ...

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 ...

Using satellite data, climate model simulations, and observational analysis, the researchers were able to trace the role of tropical atmospheric influences in recent ice shelf melt trends.

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