The Great Crack-Up – Time
Article Synopsis – NASA’s IceBridge mission has been using a suite of sophisticated scientific instruments to study and monitor the state of the Antarctic peninsula. In March 2017, the sea ice around both poles reached a record low for that time of year. In July, a 1 trillion–ton iceberg, roughly the size of Delaware, calved off of the Larsen C ice shelf in western Antarctica. The damage to the ice is being done not just from above, as the planet’s air warms, but from below, as its oceans do too. To read the actual article click here.