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Tuesday, July 29, 2008


Giant chunks break off Canadian ice shelf.

National Post, July 29, 2008 - “Giant sheets of ice totaling almost 20 square km broke off an ice shelf in the Canadian Arctic last week and more could follow later this year, scientists said Tuesday. Temperatures 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, an small island just off giant Ellesmere Island in one of the northernmost parts of Canada.” Read more.

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