One of the biggest icebergs ever just broke off Antarctica. Here's what scientists want to know.
A huge iceberg -- twice as large as Lake Erie -- has broken away from a the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica, an event that researchers have been anticipating for ...
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JUDY WOODRUFF: But first: Researchers have been watching for months, waiting for a huge iceberg to break away from an ice shelf in Antarctica. That break was confirmed today. And just to give you a sense of the size, the volume of the iceberg is said to be twice as large as Lake Erie. Miles O'Brien has been watching all this and digging into the larger questions about the ice shelf. Here's an update to an earlier report. It's part of our weekly segment on the Leading Edge of science. MILES O'BRIEN: This fast-growing rift in the Antarctica ice just created one of the largest icebergs ever recorded, about the size of Delaware, weighing more than one trillion tons. The event had been anticipated for months. Finally, some time between Monday and today, the Larsen Sea ...
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JUDY WOODRUFF: But first: Researchers have been watching for months, waiting for a huge iceberg to break away from an ice shelf in Antarctica. That break was confirmed today. And just to give you a sense of the size, the volume of the iceberg is said to be twice as large as Lake Erie. Miles O'Brien has been watching all this and digging into the larger questions about the ice shelf. Here's an update to an earlier report. It's part of our weekly segment on the Leading Edge of science. MILES O'BRIEN: This fast-growing rift in the Antarctica ice just created one of the largest icebergs ever recorded, about the size of Delaware, weighing more than one trillion tons. The event had been anticipated for months. Finally, some time between Monday and today, the Larsen Sea ...
