Melting ‘glue’ sent enormous iceberg to its doom
Oct 28, 2021
2 minutes
WORDS YASEMIN SAPLAKOGLU
he thinning of an icy ‘glue’ that holds fractured ice together may drive ice shelf collapse in Antarctica. Ice shelves are massive stretches of ice that build up over many thousands of years. But warming air and rising ocean temperatures have been driving ice shelves to disintegrate. Many of Antarctica’s ice shelves have
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