New Antarctic Ice Shelf Under Threat

Researchers have found that the 450 000 sq km Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf fringing the Weddell Sea on the eastern side of Antarctica, which previously had seemed to be unaffected by global warming, is being affected by rising warming water from below.

This process is slow, but predictions are that the ice shelf may disappear by the end of the century and could add up to 4.4 mm per year in rising sea levels.