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Giant chunks break off Canadian ice shelf
Scientists had already identified deep cracks in the Ward Hunt shelf, which measures around 400 square km. The shelf is one of five along Ellesmere Island in the northern Arctic. "Because the break-off occurred between two large parallel cracks they're thinking more could go this summer before the...
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- News Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation | about 1 year agoTemperatures in large parts of the Arctic have risen far faster than the global average in recent decades, a development that experts say is linked to global warming. The ice broke away from the shelf on Ward Hunt Island, a small island just off...
- News Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation | about 1 year agoET The fracture of a four-square-kilometre chunk of ice from the largest remaining ice shelf in the Arctic last week is a one-way change brought on by warming temperatures, says a scientist who has studied the process. Derek Mueller, a polar...
- News Source: International Business Times | about 1 year agoScientists say a chunk of ice spreading across seven square miles has broken off a Canadian ice shelf in the Arctic...Researcher Derek Mueller was careful Tuesday not to blame global warming, but says it is consistent with the theory that the current...
- News Source: Canada.com | about 1 year agoScientists had already identified deep cracks in the Ward Hunt shelf, which measures around 400 square km. The shelf is one of five along Ellesmere Island in the northern Arctic. "Because the break-off occurred between two large parallel cracks they'...
- News Source: The Globe & Mail | about 1 year agoTrudy Wohlleben, a sea-ice forecaster with the Canadian Ice Service, said the chunk could float in the Beaufort Gyre, an ice-clogged, clockwise current in the Western Arctic, for some time and is unlikely to be an imminent danger to ships. She and...
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