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More Ice Leaves Antarctica For Long Vacation

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From CNN

Some 220 square miles of ice has collapsed in Antarctica and an ice shelf about seven times the size of Manhattan is “hanging by a thread,” the British Antarctic Survey said Tuesday, blaming global warming.

News of the Wilkins ice shelf’s impending breakup came less than two weeks after the United Nations Environment Program reported that the world’s glaciers are melting away and that they show ‘record’ losses.



 
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