Can glaciers recover? (VIDEO) Stockholm University This video is under embargo. Please login to access this video. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Caption Ice shelves are floating extensions of glaciers. If Greenland’s second largest ice shelf breaks up, it may not recover unless Earth’s future climate cools considerably. This is the result of a new study, published in Nature Communications. Credit Martin Jakobsson/Stockholm University Usage Restrictions CC BY-NC-ND Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives International license. You are free to share the material. Attribution is required. You may not use the material for commercial purposes. You cannot distribute any derivative works or adaptations of the original work. Further details are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. License Original content Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert system.