The sound of a chunk of Antarctic ice hundreds of years old and seven times the size of Manhattan collapsing into the ocean should be enough to rouse the concern of even the most staunch global warming skeptics.     Including, we can only...

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Winter is coming to Antarctica, and that may be the only thing that keeps another of its major ice shelves from collapsing. On Tuesday, scientists from the British Antarctic Survey announced that there had been an enormous fracture on the edge of...
The Wilkins ice shelf had a large chunk of Antarctic ice about seven times the size of Manhattan suddenly collapse on Tuesday, putting an even greater chunk of ice in jeopardy of following it. Satellite images show the collapse of a...