19-square-mile ice sheet breaks loose in Canada

Wednesday, September 3, 2008 - 13:49 in Earth & Climate

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 said Wednesday....

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