In early 2000, a gigantic chunk of ice more than 180 miles long and 26 miles wide broke away from the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica, instantly creating the world’s largest iceberg. The rupture of B-15, or Godzilla, as the scientific community called it, touched off an intense debate about climate change and whether global warming could eventually cause t…
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