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Scientists Find Large Antarctic Ice Shelves Closer to Collapse Than They Thought

Scientists Find Large Antarctic Ice Shelves Closer to Collapse Than They Thought

| May 19, 2015 Comment

Scientists find large Antarctic ice shelves closer to collapse than they thought – In 2002, two-thirds of the massive Larsen B ice shelf in Antarctica disintegrated into the ocean, spawning hundreds to perhaps thousands of icebergs, in a span of just six weeks. That event stunned scientists, since it was unprecedented in at least 12,000 […]

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