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#Antarctica Larsen B Ice shelf Will Disintegrate Before the End of the Decade A newly published NASA study reveals that the last remaining section of Antarctica Larsen B Ice shelf is weakening
California, found the remnant of the Larsen B Ice shelf is flowing faster, becoming increasingly fragmented
Khazendar said. lthough it fascinating scientifically to have a front-row seat to watch the ice shelf becoming unstable and breaking up, it bad news for our planet.
This ice shelf has existed for at least 10,000 years, and soon it will be gone. ce shelves are the gatekeepers for glaciers flowing from Antarctica toward the ocean.
widening rift that has formed near the ice shelf grounding line will eventually crack all the way across. The free-floating remnant will shatter into hundreds of icebergs that will drift away
he evolving instability of the remnant Larsen B Ice shelf and its tributary glaciers, Earth and Planetary science Letters, Volume 419,1 June 2015, Pages 19910;
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