in the early 2000s, ice shelves began disintegrating in several parts of antarctica, and scientists realized that process could greatly accelerate the demise of the vastly larger ice sheets themselves.
in the early 2000s, ice shelves began disintegrating in several parts of antarctica, and scientists realized that process could greatly accelerate the demise of the vastly larger ice sheets themselves.
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two sections of antarctica's larsen ice shelf broke apart into hundreds of unusually small fragments (hundreds of meters wide or less) in 1995 and 2002, larsen c calved a huge ice island in 2017.