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The Wilkins Ice Shelf is a broad plate of permanent floating ice on the southwest Antarctic Peninsula, around 1,600 miles south of South America. The rest of the Wilkins ice-shelf is holding on by a narrow beam of thin ice, which scientists worry may also collapse. <\/p>\n

"It’s an event we don’t get to see very often," said Ted Sambos, lead scientist at the NSIDC in Boulder, Colorado. Scientists said they are not concerned about a rise in sea level from the latest event, but say that it is a sign of worsening global warming. <\/p>\n

Sarah Das, a scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute stated that such occurrences are "more indicative of a tipping point or trigger in the climate system." <\/p>\n

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