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Canada's artic ice shelf has 'massively' shrunk

                   
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04-Sep-2008
        
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The ice shelves in Canada's northern Arctic have shrunk at a "massive and disturbing" rate, with huge tracts breaking off and floating away, say scientists. In what researchers say is the latest evidence of accelerating climate change, 83 square miles of ice attached to Ellesmere Island – more than three times the area of Manhattan island - have broken away this summer. Their disappearance after thousands of... [read full story]                    

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dailymail.co.uk: The Markham Ice Shelf, almost the size of Manhattan, has broken off the coast of Ellesmere Island in Canada dailymail.co.uk

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The Arctic Ocean's ice cover has suffered its second-largest retreat in three decades this summer, scientists have revealed. Over this summer alone 82 square miles have broken away - reducing the Arctic Ocean ice cover...

                   
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04-Sep-2008
        

An ice shelf almost the size of Manhattan has broken off from an island in the Canadian Arctic, researchers revealed today, warning that the near-record loss of polar ice cover this summer was an indicator of the changes...

Melting ice shelves not affecting High Arctic hamlet: resident

cbc.ca
04-Sep-2008
        

Reports of Arctic ice shelves rapidly melting this summer are not alarming Inuit living on Ellesmere Island, said one resident of the High Arctic. Earlier this week, researchers from Ontario, Quebec and the United States...

Chunk of ice shelf adrift in Arctic Ocean

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04-Sep-2008
        

Keywords: climate change, Arctic Ocean A chunk of ice shelf nearly the size of Manhattan has broken away from Ellesmere Island in Canada's northern Arctic. An Arctic ice shelf specialist at Trent University in Ontario said...

Arctic ice shelves break apart

radionz.co.nz
04-Sep-2008
        

Updated at 4:37pm on 4 September 2008 Two ice shelves in Canada's far north have lost massive sections since August, while a third ice shelf is now adrift in the Arctic Ocean. The entire 50 sq km Markham Ice Shelf off the...

                   

Canada's arctic ice shelf has 'massively' shrunk

telegraph.co.uk
04-Sep-2008
        

The ice shelves in Canada's northern Arctic have shrunk at a "massive and disturbing" rate, with huge tracts breaking off and floating away, say scientists. In what researchers say is the latest evidence of accelerating...

                   

World › 19-square-mile ice sheet breaks loose in Canada

japantoday.com
03-Sep-2008
        

Thursday 04th September, 05:44 AM JST TORONTO — The Artic Ocean’s ice cover has suffered its second-largest retreat in three decades this summer, including a nearly Manhattan-sized ice shelf that broke completely from an...

Massive Arctic ice shelf breaks away!

zeenews.com
03-Sep-2008
        

A huge 19 square mile (55 square km) ice shelf in Canada`s northern Arctic broke away last month and the remaining shelves have shrunk at a "massive and disturbing" rate, the latest sign of accelerating climate change...

Ice shelves formed 4500 years ago snap off

news.com.au
03-Sep-2008
        

Article from: Agence France-Presse TWO ice shelves in Canada's far north have lost massive sections since August while a third ice shelf is now adrift in the Arctic Ocean. The entire 50 sq km Markham Ice Shelf off the...

Massive ice shelves snap off

news.com.au
03-Sep-2008
        

Article from: Agence France-Presse TWO ice shelves in Canada's far north have lost massive sections since August while a third ice shelf is now adrift in the Arctic Ocean. The entire 50 sq km Markham Ice Shelf off the...

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