A Delaware-Sized Iceberg Is Tearing Off Antarctica Right Now

Like that painful hangnail you’ve been eyeing for days—except billions of times larger, made of ice not keratin, and studied by dozens of scientists worldwide—a Delaware-sized glacier along Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf is hanging by a thread, poised to break off into the ocean any day now.

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Source: Gizmodo – A Delaware-Sized Iceberg Is Tearing Off Antarctica Right Now