Wilkins Ice Shelf, Antarctica, close to collapse

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The Wilkins Ice Shelf is experiencing further disintegration that is threatening the collapse of the ice bridge connecting the shelf to Charcotย Island.

Prof. David Vaughan of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) said: โ€œWilkins Ice Shelf is the most recent in a long, and growing, list of ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula that are responding to the rapid warming that has occurred in this area over the last fifty years.

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