Larsen Ice Shelf calving fronts

A research paper, which was published in the journal Frontiers in Environmental Science, discusses the impact of extreme events on the Antarctic environment including its weather, sea-ice extent, ocean heatwaves, glaciers and ice shelves, and the way extremes can affect marine and land biodiversity. The image here, for example, shows ice-shelf calving front on the Antarctic Peninsula from the 1950s to 2019.

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