article_snippet.sent: Antarctica's icy edge is disappearing in warming ocean waters, with the last decade seeing the rate of ice loss increase dramatically.
article_snippet.sent: This is according to a new study that has combined 18-years worth of ice shelf thinning data from three different sets of satellites.
article_snippet.sent: The researchers claim that some ice shelves in West Antarctica have lost as much as 18 per cent of The researchers volume in the last ten years.
article_snippet.sent: The graphic above shows rates of thickness change around the Antarctic coastline with areas of most loss in the past 18 years indicated by red circles and areas where ice has increased shown by blue circles .
article_snippet.sent: While most of an entire continent has experienced an increase in ice sheet mass, nearly 10,000 square miles of ice has been lost from the ice shelves off coast of the Antarctic Peninsula.
article_snippet.sent: Glaciers extending out from the fjords of the Antarctic Peninsula have also been retreating, according to researchers.
article_snippet.sent: The collapse of the Larson B shelf (shown above) on the Antarctic Peninsula is one example of the changes that have been taking place on an entire continent in recent years and have caused concern among some scientists .
article_snippet.sent: This graphic shows how warm water from the ocean may be increasing the flow of glaciers from the Antarctic ice sheet as they cause melting from below while fresh snow accumulates on top of the Antarctic ice sheet .