Climate Central: An enormous slab of ice, about a quarter the size of Rhode Island and some 200 feet thick, has broken away from Antarctica, according to German researchers.
The event, which was recorded by radar aboard Germany's orbiting TerraSAR-X satellite, was not unexpected. In 2011, a NASA satellite noted that a huge crack had appeared in the ice shelf at the outlet of the frozen continent's Pine Island Glacier. "At some point, it had to happen,' said Angelika Humbert, a glaciologist at the Alfred Wegener...