<p><b> by Isaac Himmelman</b></p><p>One of the largest icebergs ever recorded broke off from an ice shelf in Antarctica, British scientists announced Wednesday.<p>Known as A68, the iceberg weighs 1 trillion tons and is twice of the volume of Lake Erie.</p><p>Even though scientists first spotted the 120-mile crack in 2011, an ever-lengthening crack in the ice shelf garnered worldwide attention in the last few months. According to Project MIDAS, which has been monitoring the shelf, A68 broke off from the Larsen C ice shelf between Monday and Wednesday.</p><p>While the new iceberg won’t change sea levels if it melts, it could pose an immediate threat to boats sailing on the South Atlantic.</p><br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /> <br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /> if ( typeof flowplayer !== 'undefined' ) {<br /> flowplayer.conf.embed = false;<br /> flowplayer.conf.generate_cuepoints = true;<br /> flowplayer.conf.native_fullscreen = true;<br /> }<br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /></p><br /> <p>The post An Iceberg The Size of Delaware Just Broke In Antarctica</a> appeared first on Vocativ</a>.</p>
