Jan 21 – An Antarctic ice shelf is on the brink of collapse with just a sliver of ice holding it in place, the latest victim of global warming that is altering maps of the frozen continent.
David Vaughan, a glaciologist at the British Antarctic Survey, told Reuters after the first — and probably last — plane landing near the narrowest strip of ice that the feature is ‘in its death throes.’
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Ice shelf hangs by a thread
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- Scientists are supporting the ice shelf mechanically with threads.
- The ice shelf is only 500metres wide.
- The ice shelf broke up 10 years ago.
- The helicopter used the GPS transmitter to land in the shelf.
- The professor is not surprised that the shelf is so thin.
- The width of the shelf measures more than the length.
- 30% of the shelf has gone in the last 50 years.
- The ice shelf will finally go in the summer.
- Final cracks are appearing now.
- 9 other shelves are beginning to disappear.
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