The break up of ice shelves along the Antarctic Peninsula | | |
The black pools on the ice shelf Larsen B | | |
There are two types of ice: | | |
Scientists thought that land-based ice | | |
Floating ice is like an ice cube in a glass of water, | | |
Land-based ice is like a cube sitting on a stack of ice cubes, | | |
The ice shelf on Larsen B disappeared in 35 days | | |
If the ocean, which comes up under the ice, gets warmer, | | |
The same pools of melting water as on the Antarctic | | |
The scientists thought that when melting water | | |
Melting water tunnels to the bottom | | |
When melting water reaches the bottom | | |
The maps of the world will have to be redrawn | | |
Greenland would also raise sea levels | | |