warn the collapse of an Antarctic layer.
A British service said an area of \u200b\u200babout 8000 km ² "hangs on a ice," the release was announced, but it is faster than thought.
LONDON (Reuters) .- An ice sheet of Antarctica with an approximate area of \u200b\u200b8,000 square kilometers began to collapse, warned the British Antarctic Survey (BAS, for its acronym in English) British service control region .
The disintegration of the Wilkins ice sheet, the largest and most endangered of the Antarctic Peninsula, is further evidence of rapid global warming, said the scientific body. According to BAS, the layer "hangs by a thread."
Meanwhile, satellite images National Information Center U.S. Snow showed that an iceberg of 410 kilometers by 24 kilometers off the Antarctic landmass.
Now a large mass of ice, located about 1,600 km in South America, hanging by a strip of ice 6 kilometers only.
The collapse of the ice had been announced, but it is happening faster than previously thought, scientists said.
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Experts believe it is due to global warming, which occurs faster in the Antarctic Peninsula in the rest of the planet.
The rising temperatures melted the ice surface and is eroding the layers of Antarctica. In that sense, Professor David Vaughan of the BAS, said the thaw "is happening much faster than thought." "We did not expect to happen so fast. The ice now hangs by a thread," he added.
Although the period ended in the Antarctic summer, Professor Vaughan said a major storm could accelerate the decay.
"Global warming raised the limit of viability for ice ever further south. The release of Wilkins will have no effect on sea levels because it was already floating, but is another indication of the impact that climate change is having, "he said.
Source: The Nation
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