Ice Bridge broken in Antarctica

An ice bridge in the Antarctic ice sheet is a region of Jamaica broken, and this is a matter of increasing concern the impact of heating global. There are indications that the new overlay plate ice that may be immediately released from Antarctica. The images from the satellite of the European Space Agency (ESA) indicates that one of the ice bridge connecting the two Wilskin plates with the adjoining islands were broken down.

The scientists say, global warming causing the break of the ice bridge. Plates that have been shrinking since 1990, but this is the first time the loss of one of the pillar that hold the bridge. Survei South Pole in the UK (British Antarctic Survey) states, six layers of ice in the same continent that has been lost. An ESA satellite images show the mountains created a new ice float on the sea in the western Antarctica peninsula is protruding from the continent to the southern tip of South America.

"It is surprise how ice is broken," said David Vaughan, glasiologis British Antarctic Survey on , as quoted Reuters news agency. "Two days ago, he was still intact. We waited this long to see," added Vaughan Vaughan.Profesor bridge stand on the ice in January to place a GPS tracking to monitor the movement. Although the fracture did not affect sea level, this concerns a matter of increasing the impact of climate change in Antarctica tersebut.Menurut the scientists, Antarctica Peninsula has experienced a warming unprecedented in the last 50 years. Some of the shrink layer of ice in the last 30 years, six of the total collapse