From Antarctica broke off a giant iceberg

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От Антарктиды откололся гигантский айсбергThe area of the iceberg is over 250 square kilometers.

Satellite imagery showed that the Antarctic iceberg broke off, an area of over 260 square kilometers.

Block of ice broke away from the array of pine island in West Antarctica.

“Latest news from the glacier Paine island. He lost 267 square kilometers of ice, which became an iceberg after an internal rift in the glacier has increased,” wrote Stef Lhermitte, specialist satellite observations at the Technical University of Delft in the Netherlands after analyzed satellite images.

It is noted that the glacier Paine island began to rapidly melt in the last 40 years. In particular, in 2013, he separated a piece of ice with an area of 652 square kilometers. Now the failure occurs on a floating part of the glacier, because the iceberg is not supposed to raise the sea level in the region.

However, if events unfold at the same rate as now, by the end of the century glacier Paine island will disappear completely. This will lead to exposure of the continental ice of the West Antarctic ice sheet and accelerate the melting of ice in the region.

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