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The article explains several other effects to wildlife that you are skipping over. Namely, disruption to coastal food chain by melting freshwater, and the longe
by salicideblock 6y ago
The article explains several other effects to wildlife that you are skipping over. Namely, disruption to coastal food chain by melting freshwater, and the longer round trip for penguins feeding their chicks.
> Surely, penguins can deal with some floating ice?
some floating ice ??
The "beautiful page" has plenty of diagrams explaining the extent of this ice. It is the size of Jamaica. The largest floating ice object in recorded history.
- davio 6y agoMore like an ice country than an iceberg
- s1artibartfast 6y ago>The largest floating ice object in recorded history. from the article: there have been only five larger than A68a in the last 34 years. The biggest, B-15, measured 11,000 square kilometers when it broke from Antarctica’s Ross ice shelf in March 2000.
- IanDrake 6y agoAnd 34 years is a blink of an eye in geological time.