(Image: Stephen Voss/WPN) Bindschadler on the Pine Island Glacier ice shelf (Image: Cliff Leight) Icebergs in front of the ice shelf (Image: Galen Dossin)
FOR all the talk of how global warming is causing Antarctic glaciers to melt, no one really knows what is going on in the “action zone” where the ocean meets the ice. Glaciologist Robert Bindschadler has made it his mission to find out, and this January his team became the first to set foot on Antarctica’s global warming hotspot – the heavily crevassed Pine Island glacier. He tells Anil Ananthaswamy what it’s like to work in…
