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 .

Bordering the southern Weddell Sea, the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf (FRIS) is Antarctica’s largest ice shelf after the Ross Ice Shelf. Its cold, dense, and salty waters gush upstream into the ...

Antarctic researchers stumbled upon strange creatures lurking on a rock beneath Antarctica's Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf while they were drilling through the shelf that sits against the Weddell Sea.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Bedmap3 is the most fine-grain map to date of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice. Scientists created it using more than 60 years' worth of data from satellites, ships and dog-drawn sleds.

A huge iceberg the size of Las Vegas has broken off from an Antarctica ice shelf. Maps created with GPS equipment show the 235-mile-long iceberg breaking off from the Brunt Ice Shelf, which is 500 ...