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The Japanese Tsunami Broke Off an Antarctic Iceberg Twice the Size of Manhattan

Nearly 50 square miles of ice broke off the Sulzberger Ice Shelf on the coast of Antarctica as a result of waves generated by the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan in March. Skip what FOX News "has to say about this":http://www...

Nearly 50 square miles of ice broke off the Sulzberger Ice Shelf on the coast of Antarctica as a result of waves generated by the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan in March. Skip what FOX News has to say about this and look at the upside of an increasingly fragile Antarctic: giant icebergs could be towed to drought-stricken areas.

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