Tag: Ross Ice Shelf

• Thursday, June 14th 2018 - 07:24 UTC

  Antarctica ice sheet melting faster than expected, adding 0.6mm to sea level every year

  

  The Antarctic ice sheet has lost more than 2,500 billion tons of ice in the past 25 years and nearly half of that has happened since 2012. An international team of polar scientists found that melting in Antarctica has jumped sharply from an average of 76 billion tons per year prior to 2012, to around 219 billion tones each year between 2012 and 2017.

• Thursday, July 11th 2013 - 07:08 UTC

  Eight times Manhattan island iceberg breaks off from Antarctic glacier

  

  Pine Island Glacier (PIG), the longest and fastest flowing glacier in the Antarctic, has spawned a huge iceberg. The block measures about 720 sq km in area - roughly eight times the size of Manhattan Island in New York.