article_snippet: Antarctica's icy edge is disappearing in warming ocean waters, with the last decade seeing the rate of ice loss increase dramatically.
article_snippet: 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: global climate change on Earth's vast, remote polar regions.
article_snippet: Antarctica's floating ice shelves,' said glaciologist Helen .
article_snippet: The Crosson Ice Shelf in the Amundsen Sea and the Venable .
article_snippet: Ice Shelf in the Amundsen Sea, both in West Antarctica, .
article_snippet: If the loss rates that we observed during the past two . decades are sustained, some ice shelves in the Amundsen and .
article_snippet: Bellingshausen seas could disappear within this century,' added .
article_snippet: 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: West Antarctica's Brunt Ice Shelf is pictured .
highlights_snippet: Some ice shelves in the Amundsen  could disappear within this century .