The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf in the world. Located on the side of Antarctica closest to New Zealand, it spans an area about the size of Spain and has an average thickness of roughly ...

The Ross Ice shelf, which is several hundred meters thick and covers an area of about 193,400 square miles, is the largest ice shelf in Antarctica.

Old Antarctic photos help University of Copenhagen scientists trace ice shelf collapse and predict future sea level rise.

The Ross Ice Shelf, a part of the Antarctic Ice Sheet that is floating on the ocean, measures several hundred meters thick and sits over 480,000 square kilometers, approximately the size of Spain.

A long-lost photo snapped from a Navy plane in 1966 has become the unlikely key to understanding how Antarcticas ...

A forgotten set of photos taken by a U.S. Navy plane in 1966 has recently become the key to unlocking some crucial insights ...

The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest chunk of ice on Antarctica, at roughly the size of France. Scientists have known that ice streams have a tendency to lurch at least once a day with the tides, ...

The Ross Ice shelf is the largest ice self in Antarctica and is about the size of the state of Texas. The shelf plays an important role in keeping ice from flowing from the Antarctic mainland into ...

The front cliff of the Ross Ice Shelf towers high above the 6,000-ton icebreaker, the Nathaniel B. Palmer, in the background. But 90 percent of its thickness lies underwater.

On 28 November 1966, an American airplane flies over the Antarctic Peninsula just south of the southernmost tip of Chile. On ...

Browse Ross Ice Shelf news, research and analysis from The Conversation Ross Ice Shelf – Notícias, Pesquisa e Análise – The Conversation – página 1 Menu Fechar ...