Wilkins Ice Shelf

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At the risk of being called a sceptic, an ABC report at the weekend on the Wilkins Ice Shelf being in danger of breaking off from Antarctica sent me scurrying back to look at the data for myself, writes Richard Farmer.  

PARIS (AFP) - New evidence has emerged that a large plate of floating ice shelf attached to Antarctica is breaking up, in a troubling sign of global warming, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Thursday. Images taken by its Envisat remote-sensing satellite show that Wilkins Ice Shelf is...  

Scientists said they're concerned an ice bridge in Antarctica connecting the Wilkins Ice Shelf to Charcot Island is close to collapsing.The collapse could put the rest of the 9,000 square-mile ice shelf at risk, the European Space Agency said this week.Wilkins Ice Shelf is the most recent in a...  

interesting link to polar ice status and ongoing research  

ESA researchers are reporting on the accelerating loss of the ice bridge that holds the huge shelf to the land. It's getting pretty close now to just being gone. Interestingly, they also say that way back in the early 90s when they first sounded the alarm that the shelf was apparently...  

New satellite images show that an Antarctic ice shelf continues to disintegrate — and even more surprising is that it's happening during the Southern Hemisphere's winter. Experts warned last March, that the Wilkins Ice Shelf was disintegrating more quickly, but they expected that the winter cold...  

An ice bridge connecting Wilkins Ice Shelf and Charcot Island in Antarctica may collapse very soon. Its demise would likely doom the 9,000-square-mile (16,000-square-kilometer) ice shelf.  

In "a troubling sign of global warming," European scientists say that a large plate of floating ice shelf attached to Antarctica appears to be breaking up. The European Space Agency said yesterday that satellite images show that Wilkins Ice Shelf is "hanging by its last thread," which could "put...  

The Wilkins Ice Shelf in Antarctica is larger in area than the state of Connecticut. Until the 1990s, it was stable. In recent years it has shown signs of instability during the summers. Now, in the middle of the Antarctic winter, it shows signs of cracking. Scientists say it is getting ready...  

"Current events are showing that we were being too conservative, when we made the prediction in the early 1990s that Wilkins Ice Shelf would be lost within 30 years.  

The Wilkins Ice Shelf in Antarctica is clinging to the continent by a disintegrating, slender ice bridge connecting it to Charcot Island and is not expected to survive much longer, scientists announced Thursday. Since the connection ...  

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The accelerating pace of climate warming in the earth’s polar regions is spurring a new sense of scientific urgency. This past February 28 a camera onboard the NASA satellite Aqua caught a Manhattan-size floating piece of ice shelf in the act of disintegrating. Slabs continued to calve and break...  

Washington, July 11 : Scientists have determined that the ecosystem of the Antarctic Peninsula is changing fast, driven by warming waters and a loss of sea ice.