Delaware-Sized Chunk of Ice Could Dislodge from Antarctic Shelf

EcoWatch
Aug 25, 2016, 10:54 am97 pts
An 80-mile long crack in the Larsen C ice shelf threatens to dislodge a chunk of ice measuring about 2,300 square miles, nearly the size of Delaware and twice the size of the massive Larsen B ice shelf collapse in 2002. As the long Southern Hemisphere polar night is ending, satellites have been able to see that…

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