New York City-Sized Ice Block Breaks Off Antarctic Ice Shelf
April 30, 2009
Reuters reports that a giant chunk of an Antarctic ice shelf almost the size of New York City has broken into icebergs this month. Nine other ice shelves have receded or collapsed around the Antarctic peninsula in the past 50 years, which scientists widely attribute to climate change.
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