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The article presents the ice shelves strengthening Antarctica's ice sheets risk fracturing as meltwater trickling into cracks on the surface resulting in sea level rise in future.

The article reports on study by Andreas Kääb of the University of Oslo, Norway, and his colleagues on disintegration of glaciers using remote sensing images and other data. Topics discussed include devastation caused by falling of glaciers in Tibet, China; telltale crevasses observed by them in the middle of the glaciers and comments from Andreas regarding role of climate change in the collapse.

The article focuses on concerns related to an iceberg situation for the Larsen C ice shelf at Antarctica with an observation of ice crack in the shelf; and views of Adrian Luckman, project head of the MIDAS for an ice shelf monitoring at the Swansea University, on same.

The article discusses the reasons for the collapse of the Larsen B ice shelf in Antarctica, noting that global warming was not the sole cause. Neil Glasser and Ted Scambos studied the glacier via satellite images and noted that a warmer climate simply aggravated preexisting rifts in the glaciological structure.