More Bad News: Huge Arctic Ice Shelf Breaks Off

Started by TehBorken, Sep 04 08 07:50

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Huge Arctic Ice Shelf Breaks Off

CNN is reporting that a chunk of [a href="vny!://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/09/03/arctic.ice.shelf.ap/"]ice shelf nearly the size of Manhattan[/a] has broken away from Ellesmere Island in Canada's northern Arctic. Just last month [a href="vny!://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080903-arctic-ice-shelf-splits-ice-loss-10x-expected-this-summer.html"]21 square miles of ice broke free[/a] from the Markham Ice Shelf. Scientists are saying that Ellesmere Island has now lost more than 10 times the ice that was predicted earlier this summer. How long before the fabled Northwest Passage is a reality?


 
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