An ice shelf the size of New York City collapsed in East Antarctica, an area long thought stable and not hit much by climate change, scientists said.
An ice shelf the size of New York City has collapsed in East Antarctica, an area long thought to be stable and not hit much by climate change, concerned scientists said Friday.
"The Glenzer Conger ice shelf presumably had been there for thousands of years and it's not ever going to be there again," said University of Minnesota ice scientist Peter Neff. Scientists had been seeing the ice shelf shrink a bit since the 1970s, Neff said. Then in 2020, the shelf's ice loss sped up to losing about half of itself every month or so, Walker said.
In February a landmark United Nations science report said climate change is about to get much worse and likely make the world sicker, hungrier, poorer, gloomier and way more dangerous in the next 18 years:
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