Arctic warming: Greenland's ‘abnormal' Manhattan-sized ice shelf breakaway

The Ecologist
Oct 5, 2016, 8:04 am305 pts
Professor Jason Box, glaciologist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, tells NICK BREEZE how the largest ice shelf in Greenland has just lost an area of ice shelf the size of Manhattan Island. Its recent breaking away was a 'spectacular' event - but also a highly abnormal one that raises deep…

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