Climate Change — Larsen Ice Shelf Begins Collapsing
1990s • Antarctica
“The Larsen Ice Shelf, a sheet of 700-foot-thick (220 m) ice floating out over the Weddell Sea that has probably been stable since the last ice age, has been collapsing into the water in huge chunks since the 1990s.”
Earth Under Fire, by Gary Braasch, Pg. 9
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