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Global warming creates giant Antarctic iceberg

Australian: A VAST iceberg seven times the size of Manhattan has broken away from the Antarctic coast, threatening the collapse of a bigger ice shelf that is now "hanging by a thread". Satellite images have revealed that about 415sqkm of the Wilkins Shelf has been lost since the end of last month, suggesting that climate change could be causing it to disintegrate more quickly than scientists had predicted. "The ice shelf is hanging by a thread," said David Vaughan, of ... Read »
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