U.S. researchers, using satellite imagery, have discovered that a large part of the Antarctic ice shelf dissolves as a result of climate change.

Satellite imagery from the University of Colorado at Boulder's National Snow and Ice Data Center shows a portion of Antarctica's massive Wilkins Ice Shelf has begun to collapse because of rapid climate change in a fast-warming region of the continent.

British Antarctic Survey has captured dramatic satellite and video images of an Antarctic ice shelf that looks set to be the latest to break out from the Antarctic Peninsula.

A huge chunk of ice, Wilkins Ice Shelf, measuring 13,680 square kilometers or about seven times the size of Manhattan Island has begun to collapse because of climate change and global warming in the fast-warming region of Antarctica.