In Antarctica huge glacier the size of Qatar, is killing me inside. If the glacier Larsen C will crack, it will become one of the world's largest icebergs the size of 6 thousand square km, or 2,300 square miles.

It is about 4 or 7 more London for new York. A major rift in the pine island was formed at the base of the ice shelf at a depth of about 32 km in 2013. Larsen C is part of a large ice shelf in the North-Eastern coast of Antarctica.

Larsen C is not the first large iceberg that needs to break away. Over the last three decades of the Larsen A and b was also cracked from the ice shelf. According to NASA, this is very important, especially for frozen mass in one of the fastest warming areas on Earth.

NASA says that the division of Larsen C will generate a vicious circle leading to greater vulnerability. It is expected that the ice, which ever defended Larsen C, was vulnerable to disintegration, especially with increasing temperature.

Previous studies have shown that the West Antarctic ice sheet is particularly unstable and may collapse in the next 100 years. This will lead to a sea level rise of nearly 3 meters, the result may be flooding of many major coastal cities.
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