The crucial role of ice shelves
What is an ice shelf? Ice shelves are floating tongues of ice that extend from grounded glaciers on land. The…
What will happen to sea level when this huge iceberg melts?
……………nothing!! You can try to use a very simple analogic model to understand. Let’s take few ice cubes (they…
The complex interactions between ice and oceans
The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) is the worlds largest ocean current, and the only current that flows completely around the…
A landscape of ice
“So much water, so much water….” is a famous quote by our former president Mac Mahon (French president from 1873…