220 square miles of ice has collapsed in Antarctica and an ice shelf the size of seven Manhattans will follow soon. Scientists believe more such events will occur in the near future. The part of the Wilkins ice shelf started breaking of in late February.Another 220 mile piece broke away from the ice shelf in early March. There was a narrow strip of shelf ice protecting several thousand kilometers of potential further breakup and with that strip gone a shelf at about 5,282 square miles, comparable to the state of Connecticut is threatened.Such changes in the polar region may have an impact on all
























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