Why It’s Impossible to Predict When That Giant Antarctic Ice Sheet Will Split

Published Jan 20, 2017, 8:12 AM
Over the past several months, scientists working in Antarctica have been watching—with a mixture of professional fascination and personal horror—a fissure growing in the continent’s fourth-largest ice shelf. Since last November, the crack has lengthened by some 90 miles. It has 13 miles more before it rends completely, and a chunk of ice the size of Delaware goes bobbing into the Weddell Sea.

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