Wilkins Ice Shelf, Antarctica, close to collapse [2]
The Wilkins Ice Shelf is experiencing further disintegration [7] that is threatening the collapse of the ice bridge connecting the shelf to Charcot Island.
Prof. David Vaughan of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) said: "Wilkins Ice Shelf is the most recent in a long, and growing, list of ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula that are responding to the rapid warming that has occurred in this area over the last fifty years.
TAGS: antarctic [8], Antarctica [9], Antarctica [10], expedition earth [11], global warming [12], Todd Carmichael [13], todd carmichael [14], wilkins ice shelf [15]
[16]
[5]
[4]
[17]