Massive iceberg is about to break off from Antarctica - sea levels could rise by 10cm

A massive iceberg roughly a quarter of the size of Wales is about to break off from Antarctica and, if it does, sea levels could rise by 10cm. The iceberg is a vast area of Larsen C ice shelf - it is the most northern major shelf in the Antarctic Peninsula and scientists have warned that it is practically "hanging by a thread".
The frozen mass of ice has an area of 5,000 square km (1,930sq miles) and will be 350m thick when it caves.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 6 January 2017.

An expanding rift has increased in size by 18km (11 miles) over the last few weeks which means the piece is now holding on by a strand of just 20km of ice. In the opinion of researchers, shedding of the shelf will lead to global sea levels raising by 10cm and could lead to the wider break-up of Larsen C. The MIDAS Project, based at Swansea University, has been monitoring the rift and has predicted that it will shed over the next few months, depending on weather conditions. Further shedding of ice shelves around the frozen continent due to rising temperatures will give rise to increase of world sea levels.


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