What’s with those melting ice shelves in Antarctica? We explain

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By Andrea ThompsonMay 14, 2015, 7:23 pm211 pts
January 1995 marked a seminal moment in modern Antarctic history, with the crumbling of the Larsen A ice shelf, a floating plain of ice fed by glaciers on the Antarctic Peninsula. Less than a decade later, its southern neighbor, the Larsen B ice shelf, disintegrated, stunning polar scientists. After the…

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