Wilkins Ice Shelf
The Wilkins Ice Shelf is a huge glacier on the western Antarctic Peninsula. Scientists fear that global climate change is causing the ice shelf to break up and melt.
The Big Fall: Wilkins Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapses Causing More Climate Change Panic
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In case you didn't hear the news (or the thud), a chunk of ice that's a whopping mile and a half in size, has started to fall in the Antarctic. The event has caused an uproar in the scientific community.
"Now there's enough evidence to show that there is accelerated melting of some of these large bodies of ice; west Antarctic ice-sheet, the Greenland
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