From Antarctica broke off huge icebergs - rmf24.pl

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From the observed glacier from 2011 to Antaktydzie block of ice broke away. It is one and a half times that of the Warsaw and floating on the Amundsen Sea.

distracted iceberg

/ NASA /

Antarctica, a new, massive iceberg. Block of ice broke away from the Pine Island Glacier

and floating on the Amundsen Sea. This information confirmed by satellite images taken in recent days by the German satellite TerraSAR-X.

first time NASA reported a crack in the glacier in 2011. Since then, it has been observed by scientists who study how the glaciers disintegrate. Pine Island is the most rapidly changing West Antarctic glacier, which is at the bottom podmywaj? warm waters of the ocean, daily losing by as many as 6 inches thick.

Over the past 21 years the level of the seas and oceans has risen by more than 5.5 cm. Melting glaciers in Antarctica and Greenland is responsible for one-fifth of the increase.

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