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The ABCs of Antarctic Ice Shelf Melting

2015-05-13 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate Central: January 1995 marked a seminal moment in modern Antarctic history, with the crumbling of the Larsen A ice shelf, a floating plain of ice fed by glaciers on the Antarctic Peninsula. Less than a decade later, its southern neighbor, the Larsen B ice shelf, disintegrated, stunning polar scientists. After the spectacular collapses of Larsen A and B, scientists began keeping a close watch on the next ice shelf to the south, the Larsen C, which has shown some worrying signs of thinning. At about the area...

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