Observed breaking Antarctic ice shelves (IMAGE)

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Observed breaking Antarctic ice shelves

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The circumpolar Southern Ocean lies beneath sea ice and ice shelves around the Antarctic margins. The interactions between the ocean and sea ice and ice shelves make the Antarctic cryosphere vulnerable to a warming Southern Ocean.

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Credit: Jingwei Zhang, taken at Pleneau Island on 9 January 2023.

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