A Delaware-sized Antarctic Iceberg Has Broken Into the Ocean

Scientists see warnings of the chaos to come at Earth's poles. 

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By Eric Betz
Jul 12, 2017 6:49 PMJan 24, 2020 2:18 AM
Larsen C Ice Shelf Antarctica - Jeremy Harbeck
A 70-mile-long crack runs across the Larsen C Ice Shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula, months before it calved into the ocean. (Credit: Jeremy Harbeck)

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After months of dangling on by a miles-thin thread of ice, an iceberg roughly the size of Delaware just calved off Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf and began drifting out into the ocean. Scientists say the complete breakthrough happened sometime between July 10 and today, July 12.

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