Tag: West Antarctic Peninsula

• Friday, November 15th 2019 - 09:30 UTC

  US/UK scientific team on major mission to the Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica

  

  Nearly 100 scientists and support staff departed this week for the most ambitious mission to date for Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica.

• Thursday, July 13th 2017 - 08:53 UTC

  Huge iceberg breaks free from the Antarctica Larsen C ice shelf

  

  An iceberg the size of Delaware has broken free from an Antarctic ice shelf, leaving the rest of the shelf vulnerable to collapse and serving as a harbinger of future sea-level rise that could pose a serious threat to coastal communities such as the Falkland Islands.

• Wednesday, May 14th 2014 - 00:15 UTC

  West Antarctica glaciers' melting 'have passed the point of no return', says NASA study

  

  A new study by researchers at NASA and the University of California, Irvine, finds a rapidly melting section of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet appears to be in an irreversible state of decline, with nothing to stop the glaciers in this area from melting into the sea.

• Tuesday, April 12th 2011 - 20:20 UTC

  Antarctica penguin species suffering from declining krill availability, says NOAA

  

  A number of penguin species found in western Antarctica are declining as a result of a fall in the availability of krill, a study has suggested. Researchers, examining 30 years of data, said chinstrap and Adelie penguin numbers had been falling since 1986.