Short-term changes in Antarctica's ice shelves are key to predicting their long-term fate
- Written by Helen Amanda Fricker, Professor, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego
The northeast edge of the Venable Ice Shelf, near Antarctica's Allison Peninsula.NASA/John Sonntag, CC BYAntarctica’s ice sheet contains enough ice to raise global sea levels by around 180 feet if it all melted. But dramatic, eye-catching changes to Antarctica’s floating ice shelves, such as calving icebergs, are often highlighted in...
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