TORONTO (AP) -- A chunk of ice shelf nearly the size of Manhattan has broken away from Ellesmere Island in Canada's northern Arctic, another dramatic indication of how warmer temperatures are changing the polar frontier, scientists...
July 27: A chunk of ice drifts after it separated from the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf off the north coast of Ellesmere Island in Canada's far north.
July 27: A chunk of ice drifts after it separated from the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf off the north coast...
BEIJING, Sept. 4 -- In the latest sign of the
accelerating climate change, a huge ice shelf has broken away in Canada's
northern Arctic, and the remaining shelves have shrunk at a "massive and
disturbing" rate.
The 55-sq-km Markham Ice...
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The landscape surrounding Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic is a shadow of its former self, thanks in part to last month's departure of 55 square kilometers of the Markham Ice Shelf. Ellesmere Island anchors one of only five remaining ice...
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