An iceberg the size of Delaware has broken off Antarctica
An iceberg roughly the size of Delaware and weighing more than a trillion tons has broken off an ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula.
The calving off of the 2,500 square miles iceberg from the Larsen C ice-shelf was detected and confirmed in data from NASA, but scientists say the iceberg was already floating before it separated and therefore has no immediate impact on sea level.
Larsen C is the fourth largest ice shelf in Antarctica with an area of about 20,000 square miles according to NASA. Ice shelves are barriers that keep land-based ice from flowing into the sea resulting in higher sea levels.
“In the ensuing months and years, the ice shelf could either gradually regrow, or may suffer…
