Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.
A giant crack in the Antarctic ice is getting bigger. A lot bigger.
The miles-long break is in an area known as the Larsen C Ice Shelf.
Eric Rignot is UC Irvine professor and a senior scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He's been tracking the crack and says that once this crack cuts all the way through the shelf, an iceberg the size of a small state could break off into the sea.
Take Two's A Martinez spoke with Rignot to get put this situation into context.