By the way, Scientists studying the rift don't attribute this event to climate change: > "This is probably not directly attributable to any warming in the regi

By the way, Scientists studying the rift don't attribute this event to climate change: > "This is probably not directly attributable to any warming in the region, although of course the warming won't have helped," says Luckman. "It's probably just simply a natural event that's just been waiting around to happen." [0] [0]: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/16/509565462/an-ice-shelf-is-cracking-in-antarctica-but-not-for-the-reason-you-think http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/16/509565462/...