Toppling icebergs sped breakup of Larsen B ice shelf

From San Francisco, at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union

Early this year, most of Antarctica’s Larsen B ice shelf fell apart during the region’s warmest summer on record (SN: 3/30/02, p. 197: Available to subscribers at All Cracked Up from the Heat? Major hunk of an Antarctic ice shelf shatters and drifts away).