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/ 26 March 2008

Big chunk of Antarctic ice shelf falling apart

A section of Antarctica’s massive Wilkins Ice Shelf has begun disintegrating under the effects of global warming, satellite images by the University of Colorado’s National Snow and Ice Data Centre showed. The collapse of a substantial section of the ice shelf was triggered on February 28 when an iceberg measuring 41km by 2,4km broke off its south-western front.