In this handout photo provided by British Antarctic Survey, field guide Andy Hood is seen at the Brunt ice shelf in Antarctica in January 2020. This mosaic image is centered on the northern part of the ice shelf. The Independent writes on the intensification of melting on the Antarctic peninsula. Researchers have now turned their attention to Larsen C, […] The Antarctic peninsula, where the Larsen ice shelf resides, is one of the fastest-warming places on the planet. The Ross Sea Ice Shelf is Antarctica's largest (Getty) Leer en Español. One large effect of this is the collapse of the Larsen A Ice Shelf in 1995 followed by the break up of Larsen B seven years later. (Robert Taylor/British Antarctic Survey via … The Amery Ice Shelf in Antarctica has just produced its biggest iceberg in more than 50 years. Scientists have documented one of the most extensive melting events ever recorded in West Antarctica, an area that holds enough land ice to raise sea level by about 11 feet if … As temperatures rise due to climate change, the melting of polar ice sheets is accelerating. Researchers attribute this to both atmospheric and oceanic warming. Shown below are up-to-date satellite observations of the sea ice covers of both the Arctic and the Antarctic, along with comparisons with the historical satellite record of more than 37 years. For example, sea ice retreat in the Weddell Sea along the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula probably contributed to Larsen Ice Shelf losses. In contrast, in the Antarctic the sea ice coverage has been increasing although at a lesser rate than the decreases in the Arctic. 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