After warming fast, part of Antarctica gets a chill - studyREUTERS "We're certainly not saying that global warming has stopped. * Ask an expert: How to get to Antarctica"We're certainly not saying that global warming has stopped. At a Paris summit in December, almost 200 governments agreed the strongest deal yet to rein in global warming, aiming to phase out fossil fuels by 2100. On the Antarctic Peninsula, about 10 ice shelves, from the Jones to the Wilkins, have retreated sharply or disintegrated in recent decades. And on the Antarctic Peninsula, in 2014 scientists spotted a new crack tens of kilometres long on the Larsen C ice shelf.

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