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This ice shelf is nearly the size of Scotland seems unstable
2015-05-13 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: In early 2002, scientists peering in on Antarctica from satellites saw something they found very alarming. The Larsen B ice shelf, bigger than Rhode Island and 720 feet thick, underwent a sudden collapse in only 35 days (video here). It was following in the footsteps of the 1,500-square-kilometer Larsen A ice shelf, which collapsed in 1995, but Larsen B was more than two times larger. The ice shelf, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, had likely existed for 12,000 years before...
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