Global warming brings down a chunk of ice seven times the size of Manhattan

In the latest worrisome climate change-related event, a chunk of glacial ice seven times the size of Manhattan has broken away in western Antarctica, says the Washington Post.

A 160-square-mile piece of ice broke off the Wilkins Ice Shelf, which is about the size of Connecticut. The piece had been dangling precipitously since late February. Scientists worry that the rest of the ice shelf has been destabilized and is headed for collapse as well. Collapses such as this have been increasing in recent decades. In 1993, one prominent scientist predicted that the Wilkins shelf would collapse entirely within 30 years. Guess that gives us 13 years to figure out some solutions. That, or put our houses on stilts.

--Emily Matchar