Glacial Death Watch: Why an Ice Shelf Snapped in 2002 and What's Coming Next

Collapse of the Larsen-B Ice Shelf on January 31, 2002. Source: MODIS/NASA
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Like Cape Fear or Starvation Lake, a place called Scar Inlet might be a good setting for … the perfect murder.

Unfortunately for aspiring homicidal maniacs, the population of Scar Inlet is zero, so this 900-square-mile ice cube on the northernmost finger of the Antarctic Peninsula will have to serve as the site of another kind of vanishing.