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19 March 2002
Antarctic ice shelf collapses
- Greenpeace predictions proved correct
A
huge ice shelf in Antarctica has collapsed in the space of only a month.
The Larsen B ice shelf was 200m thick and 3250 km². The collapse
is due to unprecedented warming in the region in the last 50 years.
In 1997 a Greenpeace
expedition to the region discovered a large crack in the ice shelf and
predicted
a collapse of the ice shelf in the near future.
References:
The Breakup
of the Antarctic Peninsula Ice Shelves (from 1997)
Video
of the 1997 Ice crack
Links:
The full
details from British Antarctic Survey
Story,
animation and audio from the BBC
.