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Massive iceberg breaks off glacier in Antarctica

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Channel: News Direct · 2017 · News & Politics

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A massive iceberg broke apart from of the Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica this week.

The break has scientists worried that Pine Island Glacier's behavior might be changing, reported Weather.com.

The area that broke apart is said to be 4.5 times the size of New York's Manhattan island.

Loss of ice from the glacier contributes to a 1 millimeter rise in the world's oceans, every eight years.

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1. Depiction of land fracturing 
2. Depiction of iceberg splitting from space
3. Scale of iceberg against Manhattan

VOICEOVER (in English): 

"This week an iceberg broke apart from the Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica."

"Loss of ice from the glacier contributes to a 1 millimeter rise in the world's oceans every eight years."

"The part that broke apart is said to be 4.5 times the size of New York's Manhattan island."


SOURCES: Weather.com, Professor Stef Lhermitte,
https://weather.com/science/environment/news/antarctica-iceberg-pine-island-glacier
https://twitter.com/StefLhermitte

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