More scary news from the southern tip of our planet. News we’ve been expecting. An ice bridge linking a shelf of ice the size of Jamaica to an island in Antarctica has broken. Researchers are saying that the collapse could mean that the Wilkins Ice Shelf is on the verge of completely breaking away. The Wilkins ice shelf has been retreating for the last two decades, but this is the first time it has lost one of the connections that keeps it in place.It snapped at the thinnest point of the 25 mile wide strip of ice.

Recently revealed European Space Agency satellite image shows newly created icebergs floating in the sea on the western side of the Antarctic peninsula, which juts up from the continent towards South America’s southern tip.

While this shelf break won’t necessarily have an impact on sea level, it increases the already intense concerns about the impact of climate change on this part of Antarctica. The Antarctic Peninsula has experienced unprecedented warming over the last 50 years and a number of Antarctic ice shelves have retreated in the past 30 years, with six of them collapsing entirely.