Patagonia: Southern pack ice breaks due to climate change

Environmental organizations issued an alert after the fracture of the southern icefield, which has been recorded in recent days in Patagonia. It is a set of glaciers of more than 12,000 square kilometers.

The ice block, the largest in the southern hemisphere outside of Antarctica, It is shared by Chile and Argentina and remains on alert due to the growth of climate change.

Gino Casbada, head of the glaciology and snow unit of the Water Directorate of the Ministry of Public Works, said Reuters: "What happened is a fragmentation, a division, a withdrawal of the ice that has resulted in a split in two of this great mbad that is the southern ice field."

Then he added: "A small body of about 208 square kilometers separated left a band that was previously covered with ice. The ice was so far back and so thin that there was a rocky moat. "