Antarctica's doomed A68 iceberg dumped 1 trillion tons of water into the ocean

After the world's largest iceberg snapped off of the Antarctic Peninsula in July 2017, it drifted north on a three-year death march, shedding an unfathomable amount of meltwater into the sea. Now, a new study of the doomed iceberg (named A68a) reveals just how much water the infamous mega-berg actually lost — and how that could impact the local ecosystem for generations to come.
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1a. Larsen C Iceberg: Trillion-tonne iceberg breaks off Antarctica:
(https://www.eco-r.eu/2017/07/larsen-c-iceberg-trillion-tonne-iceberg.html)
2a Antarctique: un iceberg géant sur le point de se détacher de la Barrière de Larsen:
(https://www.eco-r.eu/2017/01/antarctique-un-iceberg-geant-sur-le.html)
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1b. Why scientists are so worried about this glacier:
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRUxTFWWWdY&list=PLdVafdu-hqS6xNQzzPlC8g55wDl0hBEKL&index=6)
2b. Glaciers:
(https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdVafdu-hqS52x7BR2dCTd91_5gOc1JpP)
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