The Melting Frontiers: Antarctica’s Diminishing Ice Shelves
The frozen bastions of Antarctica, long thought invincible, are succumbing. A new report elucidates a stark reality – the continent’s ice shelves, those silent gatekeepers holding back glaciers from the open ocean, are diminishing. Since 1997, four dozen have retreated significantly, with 28 of them relinquishing more than half of their icy grasp. An ice…