Tag: Withdrawal

Wordie - Chronicle of a disappearance

Camille Lin

We've almost forgotten it, but Wordie wasn't always a bay: it was once an ice shelf, and its slow disappearance is a textbook example of the powerful phenomenon of glacier collapse at work in Antarctica.

Warm air from the north

Camille Lin

The winter of 2023 saw the lowest ever sea ice extent around Antarctica. A drop in sea ice area compared with average values caused by polar cyclones and atmospheric lows.

Greenland's last ice shelfs are beating a retreat

Camille Lin

The ice downstream of the glaciers in northeast Greenland is very important for their stability, but a third of this ice has disappeared since 1978.

Kerguelen and lithospheric uplift

Camille Lin

Physicists have noted that seismic activity in the Kerguelen archipelago could be linked to the retreat of the Cook glacier since 1999.

Below the ice, future natural areas to be preserved?

Camille Lin

A joint team from the Franco-Swiss Alpine regions has published an article in Nature exploring the natural areas that will be exposed by retreating glaciers between now and 2100, calling for recognition of this unique character and the services these areas provide to humanity.

Antarctica - Five Hundred Meters under the Ross Ice Shelf

Camille Lin

The launch of an underwater ROV offers a precise view of the underside of the world's largest floating ice shelf.