In Antarctica, a giant iceberg the size of Chicago began to crack.

An iceberg with an area of about 500 square kilometers began to break off the shelf in the Antarctic, Newsweek reports.

In the images taken by the satellites of the Sentinel-1 mission, glaciologists noticed cracks 9 meters wide in the ice of the Larsen D. glacier. An iceberg the size of two Luxembourg was already separated from this glacier in 2017.

According to calculations, the iceberg will completely separate from the glacier in a month.

The melting of Antarctic glaciers has accelerated in recent years. According to researchers, the melting of Antarctica could cause sea level rise by almost one meter by 2100.