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Wilkins Ice Shelf Disintegration Underscores a Warming World
Satellite imagery from the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder reveals that a 13,680 square kilometer (5,282 square mile) ice shelf has begun to collapse because of rapid climate change in a fast-warming region of Antarctica. [read that again 5,282 square mile!!] Read the rest of this entry »