When it breaks away, the loss would be of nearly 2,000 square miles of ice, saythe researchers with Project MIDAS, a British government-funded collaboration based at Swansea and Aberystwyth universities in Wales. That’s larger than Rhode Island and almost as big as Delaware.

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