'While humans are killing humans, and governments are spending on weaponry as if there is no tomorrow, the environment is collapsing.'
The outlets pointed to a tweet with satellite imagery shared by Catherine Walker, an Earth and planetary scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and NASA.
Stef Lhermitte of the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands on Friday shared time-lapse video of the change:Antarctic ice sheet expert Bertie Miles also provided historical visual context for the collapse:that iceberg C-38 calved, or broke free, from the Conger Ice Shelf."C-38 comprised virtually all that remained of the Conger Ice Shelf, which was adjacent to the Glenzer Ice Shelf which calved last week as iceberg C-37," the USNIC said.
Ice shelves, as NASA describes, are"floating tongues of glaciers that extend over the ocean" and"slow the rate at which Antarctica's glaciers contribute to global sea level rise" by holding back the flow of ice into the sea. At roughly 1,200 square kilometers, according to the reporting, the Conger Ice Shelf was about the size of Los Angeles.glaciologist and climate scientist Peter Neff, the collapse still represents"a significant event.""This ice shelf may have been small but it is in EAST Antarctica, a region previously considered less vulnerable," he
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