Ice shelves hold back Antarctica's glaciers from adding to sea levels – but they're crumbling
- Written by: Alexander Fraser, Senior Researcher in Antarctic Remote Sensing, University of Tasmania
Esmee van Wijk, Author providedAs Antarctica’s slow rivers of ice hit the sea, they float, forming ice shelves. These shelves extend the glaciers into the ocean until they calve into icebergs.
But they also play a crucial role in maintaining the world as we know it, by acting as a brake on how fast the glaciers can flow into the ocean. If...
