By Douglas McCauley and Paul DeSalles (The views expressed are those of the authors, not necessarily Mongabay.) 1. U.S. Drops Out of Paris In our 2015 ocean top 10 list, we celebrated the adoption of the Paris agreement as a monumental achievement for slowing the warming, acidification and deoxygenation of our global oceans. In 2017, […]
The growing rift in the Antarctic Peninsula has now lengthened to 110 miles, meaning that the Larsen C ice shelf is now connected to the main ice shelf by only a 12-mile “thread,” USA TODAY reports. The British Antarctic Survey determined that the crack has expanded by 50 miles since 2011. “It is particularly hard […]
A 70-mile long crack in the Larsen C ice shelf grew another shocking 11 miles in December alone. That leaves just 12 miles before an iceberg the size of Delaware snaps off into the Southern Ocean. https://twitter.com/danzukowski/status/769269713109151744 “The Larsen C Ice shelf in Antarctica is primed to shed an area of more than 5000 square […]
An 80-mile long crack in the Larsen C ice shelf threatens to dislodge a chunk of ice measuring about 2,300 square miles, nearly the size of Delaware and twice the size of the massive Larsen B ice shelf collapse in 2002. As the long Southern Hemisphere polar night is ending, satellites have been able to […]
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