An Ice Shelf Is Cracking In Antarctica, But Not For The Reason You Think

A group of scientists is gathered today in the U.K. to discuss a slab of ice that’s cracking in Antarctica. The crack could soon split off a frozen chunk the size of Delaware.
One glacier scientist, Heidi Sevestre, spent six weeks last year living on that giant slab of ice off the Antarctic Peninsula.
“It’s like being on a different planet,” says Sevestre, a glaciologist with the University of St Andrews in Scotland. She and her colleagues would get really excited whenev