Sunday, August 21, 2005
Warming threatens Nunavut ice shelf
Climate change melts away Canada's last big mass: "WARD HUNT ISLAND, Nunavut -- Three years after a huge crack split one of Canada's last remaining ice shelves in half, scientists have found fresh evidence that global warming is splintering the mass of ice.
The Ward Hunt Ice Shelf is a cold and foreboding place at the edge of the earth, about 3,500 kilometres north of Edmonton. But its edges are quickly being erased as climate change rapidly alters Ellesmere Island, Canada's northernmost landmass.
The ice shelf is a 450-square-kilometre ledge that's 25 metres thick and reaches up into the Arctic Ocean from the mouth of Ellesmere Island's Disraeli Fiord. It surrounds Ward Hunt Island, which at 83 degrees north lies at the very tip of land in the Americas."
The Ward Hunt Ice Shelf is a cold and foreboding place at the edge of the earth, about 3,500 kilometres north of Edmonton. But its edges are quickly being erased as climate change rapidly alters Ellesmere Island, Canada's northernmost landmass.
The ice shelf is a 450-square-kilometre ledge that's 25 metres thick and reaches up into the Arctic Ocean from the mouth of Ellesmere Island's Disraeli Fiord. It surrounds Ward Hunt Island, which at 83 degrees north lies at the very tip of land in the Americas."
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