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Giant chunks break off Canadian ice shelf Giant sheets of ice totaling
almost eight square miles broke off an ice shelf in the Canadian Arctic
last week and more could follow later this year, scientists said on
Tuesday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25917328/from/ET/

Thanks to to Greg, who sent me a similar article ...
"Huge chunk snaps off storied Arctic ice shelf"
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080729.ICE29/TPStory/...

A four-square-kilometre chunk has broken off Ward Hunt Ice Shelf -
the largest remaining ice shelf in the Arctic - threatening the future
of the giant frozen mass that northern explorers have used for years as
the starting point for their treks.
Scientists say the break, the largest on record since 2005, is the
latest indication that climate change is forcing the drastic reshaping
of the Arctic coastline, where 9,000 square kilometres of ice have been
whittled down to less than 1,000 over the past century, and are only
showing signs of decreasing further.
"Once you unleash this process by cracking the ice shelf in multiple
spots, of course we're going to see this continuing," said Derek
Mueller, a leading expert on the North who discovered the ice shelf's
first major crack in 2002.
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