Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf nears breaking point
![crack in Larsen C ice shelf](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/ticker_LarsenC_crack_free.jpg?fit=860%2C460&ssl=1)
A 100-meter-wide, kilometers-long rift in Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf, shown in this image from Nov. 10, 2016, could soon break off a 5,000-square-kilometer chunk of ice into the ocean, scientists warn.
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