Arctic

We shouldn't be worried about the huge Antarctic iceberg, it's the little glaciers behind it

An enormous iceberg (R) breaks off the Knox Coast in the Australian Antarctic Territory, January 11, 2008. Australia's CSIRO's atmospheric research unit has found the world is warming faster than predicted by the United Nations' top climate change body, with harmful emissions exceeding worst-case estimates. Picture taken January 11, 2008.  REUTERS/Torsten Blackwood/Pool    (ANTARCTICA) - RTR1X0U1

The predicted breakdown of the Larsen C ice shelf will have serious consequences Image: REUTERS/Torsten Blackwood

Christopher Watson
Senior Lecturer, University of Tasmania
Matt King
Professor, Surveying & Spatial Sciences, School of Land and Food, University of Tasmania
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Satellite photo series of Larsen B Ice Shelf collapse from January 2002 to April 2002
Satellite images showing changes to the Larsen B Ice Shelf from January 2002 to April 2002 Image: NASA
Locations of the Larsen C Ice Shelf and the Wordie Ice Shelf-Fleming Glacier system with ice front positions from 1947 to 2016.
Changes to the ice front position of the Larsen C Ice Shelf and the Wordie Ice Shelf-Fleming Glacier system from 1947 to 2016 Image: The Conversation
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