State of the Planet

News from the Columbia Climate School

Tag: Larsen B ice shelf

  • Antarctica’s Ice: the Big Picture

    Antarctica’s Ice: the Big Picture

    The impacts of climate change are being felt around the world, but the changes in the polar regions have been more pronounced. The world began to take notice to these changes when an ice shelf roughly the size of Rhode Island collapsed into the ocean in 2002.

  • Antarctica’s Ice: the Big Picture

    Antarctica’s Ice: the Big Picture

    The impacts of climate change are being felt around the world, but the changes in the polar regions have been more pronounced. The world began to take notice to these changes when an ice shelf roughly the size of Rhode Island collapsed into the ocean in 2002.