BREAKING up is getting easier to do, it seems, especially when it comes to the Antarctic Peninsula. On 3 April, showed that an ice bridge which connected two islands to the Wilkins ice shelf had shattered. This has left the shelf vulnerable to the ocean and in danger of breaking away from the peninsula.
Last year, the 13,000-square-kilometre Wilkins ice shelf released huge chunks of ice, leaving a narrow ice bridge as the only connection between the northern front of the ice shelf and the ice surrounding nearby Charcot and Latady islands.
Now that ice bridge has…
