Scientists have been keeping a worried eye on this ice shelf for years..Antarctic..

Satelite image released 03 April 2009 by the European Space Agency (ESA) captured by Envisat’s Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) showing the first detachment of an iceberg on 2 April 2009 at 11:55 UTC. As visible, the rift perpendicular to the length axis widened as the iceberg formed. As visible, the rift perpendicular to the length axis widened as the iceberg formed. Scientists have been keeping a worried eye on this ice shelf for years. For many, it is a barometer of global warming, which has hit the Antarctic peninsula harder than almost any region on Earth.

This combination of two satellite images posted on April 08, 2009 on the Nasa Earth Observatory website show the narrow ice bridge connecting Charcot Island and Latady Island—the last remnant of the northern part of Antarctica’s Wilkins Ice Shelf—breaking apart in early April 2009. In the lower image, taken by the MODIS instrument on NASA’s Terra satellite on March 31, 2009, the ice bridge was still intact. The ice appears to be smooth, an unbroken surface. Less than a week later, late on April 6, the MODIS instrument on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured the top image.