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Ice shelves are thick slabs of ice that are attached to coastlines and extend out over the ocean. In the natural course of events, ice shelves often calve large icebergs. Beginning in the mid-1990s, however, some ice shelves began exhibiting a new behavior rapid disintegration into small pieces, likely as the result of warming temperatures. On February 28, 2008, the Wilkins Ice Shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula exhibited such a phenomenon.The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensors on NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites provided some of the earliest evidence of the Wilkins Ice Shelf disintegration. Intact ice shelf appears white, and disintegrating shelf appears blue.The disintegration of the Wilkins Ice Shelf was announced by the National Snow and Ice Data Center, the British Antarctic Survey, and the Earth Dynamic System Research Center at Taiwan's National Cheng Kung. According to the institutions' joint press release, an iceberg measuring 41 by 2.5 kilometers (25....