PHOTO IN THE NEWS: Ice Shelf Collapses -- in Winter

Monday, June 16, 2008 - 21:35 in Earth & Climate

A large ice chunk broke off the Wilkins Ice Shelf in the Antarctic Peninsula, satellite images show—the first documented instance of a winter breakup.

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