Highlights 1 This Antarctica crack is an offshoot of a rupture that was discovered in 2014. "It's taking basically a sharp hook toward the calving front," said McGrath, using a technical term to describe the ocean side of the ice shelf. It is reasonable to link the event and the shrinking ice shelves in Antarctica to global warming, Richard Alley, a glaciologist at Penn State University who is not connected with project. An overwhelming majority of scientists say human activity - including the burning of oil, gas and coal - is the main driver of rising global temperatures. The loss of so much ice would shrink the shelf by about 10 percent, leaving it with the smallest area ever recorded.

Source: India Today May 04, 2017 04:52 UTC