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Ice Shelf Twenty Times the Size of Manhattan Collapes in Antarctic Heat Wave

GONE

The Conger ice shelf had been melting for decades but appears to have been pushed over the edge by recent record high temperatures.

Tom Sykes
Tom Sykes 

European Editor at Large

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Tom Sykes

Tom Sykes

European Editor at Large

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