The Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf (FRIS) extends over the Weddell Sea in Antarctica. Unlike some other Antarctic ice shelves , FRIS currently appears stable in our warming world .

Drilling through half-a-mile-thick ice and peering beneath Antarctica's Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, researchers have accidentally stumbled upon strange creatures lurking on a rock beneath the icy ...

Though these ice shelves are thought to be stable for now, a fact sheet from the U.S. Geological Survey says that the glaciers kept in check by the Ross and Filchner-Ronne could create a “rapid ...

Researchers were drilling through 900 meters of ice in the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, situated on the southeastern Weddell Sea, when they stumbled upon unexpected creatures “firmly attached to a ...

The find is hardly unusual; in 2021, another team uncovered sponges and other species underneath nearly 3,000 feet of ice in the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf — the first time any living creatures ...

Antarctica’s Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, located just east of the giant peninsula that extends toward South America, hasn’t caused much worry to date in terms of sea level rise.