For the first time in eastern Antarctica, an ice shelf collapsed, and a 460-square-mile iceberg fell off
Recently, there have been rare high temperatures in both antarctica and the Arctic, with 21 degrees Celsius on the Antarctic plateau, a long column of water vapor in the sky that carries heat from the tropics to the South Pole, and a high-pressure system of "hot domes" over Antarctica, which became the last straw that crushed camels, and the East Antarctic Ice Shelf finally collapsed between March 14 and March 16.
The GlenzeConger Ice Shelf in east Antarctica is larger than New York City, and was previously considered a stable ice shelf in Antarctica, but it is now beginning to collapse, and although the 460-square-mile iceberg is not large, it means that the ice shelf collapse is still behind.
The Glenze Conger Ice Shelf has existed for a thousand years, and since 1970, the Glenze Conger Ice Shelf has been slowly shrinking, and from 2020 onwards, its melting rate is accelerating, which has triggered concerns among glaciologists that the global climate crisis is really coming, and in the future, there will be more and more extreme weather in the world, and there will be more and more natural disasters.
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