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Old 09-04-08, 12:33 PM   #11
geetrue
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Here it is: http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7012171216

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Komfie Manalo - AHN News Writer
Toronto, Canada (AHN) - Scientists on Wednesday said that the breaking of a chunk of ice shelf nearly the size of Manhattan in Ellesmere Island in Canada's northern Arctic is a clear indication of how temperatures are warming the polar frontier.
Arctic ice shelf specialist Derek Mueller of the Trent University in Ontario, Canada said the 19-square-mile shelf is now drifting in the Arctic Ocean after breaking loose in early August. The chunk of ice sheet was part of the 4,500-year-old Markham Ice Shelf.
He adds the event underscores how rapid changes are taking place in the Arctic due to global warming.
This one was only 19 square miles another one down in the Anarctic was 160 square miles earlier this year.
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