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The waning is happening on the Larsen B ice shelf, one of three shelves that make up the Larsen Ice Shelf.
CNN: Satellite documents thinning ice shelf
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Larsen B, a 1, 254-square-mile ice shelf, comparable in size to the U.S. state of Rhode Island, collapsed in 2002, the group said.
CNN: Massive ice shelf on verge of breakup
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The scientists say that this is what happened in 2002 on the Antarctic peninsula when the Larsen B shelf collapsed spectacularly in just a month.
BBC: West Antarctic Ice Sheet warming twice earlier estimate
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Several ice shelves -- Prince Gustav Channel, Larsen Inlet, Larsen A, Larsen B, Wordie, Muller and Jones -- have collapsed in the past three decades, the British Antarctic Survey said.
CNN: Massive ice shelf on verge of breakup