The Larsen Ice Shelf consists of a series of many floating ice chunks. Here’s what you need to know about the break:What’s an ice shelf anyway? It was only about half the size of one that calved from the Ross Ice Shelf in 2000: a 4,200-square-mile hunk of ice the size of Jamaica. This NASA/USGS animation shows the crack in the Larsen C ice shelf growing from 2006 to 2017. “For the next six months, the ice shelf is going to be completely fine.”Support our journalism Already a subscriber?

Source: Los Angeles Times July 13, 2017 10:52 UTC