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Scientists Are Watching in Horror as Ice Collapses

2016-04-12 16:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

National Geographic: The soldiers at Matienzo Base in Antarctica made an odd discovery in January 1995-an antique dog sled, unlike any they had ever seen, bound together by leather straps, with a label reading "Made in England." Matienzo was an Argentine research base on a small island 30 miles off the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. It was surrounded by a vast plain of white-a slab of glacial ice, 700 feet (215 meters) thick, that floated on the ocean. That floating slab, called Larsen A Ice Shelf, covered an area...

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