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Giant Arctic ice sheet snaps off
The 20 square kilometer ice sheet is believed to be the biggest ice chunk to fracture in the region since 2005, BBC reported...Disraeli Fjord which froze under the shelf; the fracture may have been caused by a change in process. Researchers warn that this change may rapidly melt the rest of the shelf....
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- News Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation | about 1 year agoScientists confirmed the phenomenon in a fly-over of the first mass of ice and by analysing satellite data. It was the largest break-up of an ice shelf in the Arctic since the Ayles Ice Shelf broke off the Ellesmere Island coast in 2005 and formed a...
- News Source: Press TV | about 1 year agoThe 20 square kilometer ice sheet is believed to be the biggest ice chunk to fracture in the region since 2005, BBC reported...Disraeli Fjord which froze under the shelf; the fracture may have been caused by a change in process. Researchers warn that...
- News Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | about 1 year agoScientists say the break, the largest on record since 2005 but still small when compared to others, is the latest indication that climate change is forcing the drastic reshaping of the Arctic coastline, where about 3,500 square miles of ice have been...
- News Source: Fox News | about 1 year agoMueller said the sheet broke away last week from the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf off the north coast of Ellesmere Island in Canada's far north. He said a crack in the shelf was first spotted in 2002 and a survey this spring found a network of fissures. The...
- News Source: BBC | about 1 year agoNearly 20 sq km (eight sq miles) of ice from the Ward Hunt shelf has split away from Ellesmere Island, according to satellite pictures. It is thought to be the biggest piece of ice shed in the region since 60 sq km of the nearby Ayles ice shelf broke...
- News Source: Toronto Star | about 1 year agoA scientist on board the Amundsen research icebreaker near the Beaufort Sea says the ice shelf that broke apart last week is another sign that the Arctic has reached a tipping point in climate change. Two blocks that broke away from the Ward Hunt Ice...
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