A tower block of ice has split off from a glacier less than a mile away from a ship on which Sky News is filming scientists as they track the impact of climate change.

The huge slab, at least 40 metres high and weighing thousands of tonnes, toppled from the William Glacier on Anvers Island, Antarctica.

Dramatic footage filmed in the early hours by a

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