Ice shelves fracture under weight of meltwater lakes, study shows
Phys.org - 2024-05-03T18:10:07.000Z

When air temperatures in Antarctica rise and glacier ice melts, water can pool on the surface of floating ice shelves, weighing them down and causing the ice to bend. Now, for the first time in the field, researchers have shown that ice shelves don't just buckle under the weight of meltwater lakes—they fracture.

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