An ice shelf is a thick platform of ice that forms at the grounding line of a glacier, where the glacier meets the coastline. Captions and Photo source: Peter Prokosch / UNEP
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called for the establishment of increased protections in two parts of the Southern Ocean around Antarctica at an event held Monday night by The Pew Charitable Trusts at the National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C…