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Trillion ton iceberg breaks free from Antarctic ice shelf

By Pete Kasperowicz
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Trillion ton iceberg breaks free from Antarctic ice shelf

An iceberg weighing more than 1 trillion tons has broken free from the Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica, according to a U.K.-based research project that monitors ice melt in the region.

Project MIDAS, which researches the effects of climate change on the Antarctic, said the volume of the iceberg is “twice that of Lake Erie,” and is one of the biggest calving incidents ever recorded.

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