Huge ice sheet breaks loose in Canada

Courtesy MSNBC.com: Environment  Wed, 09/03/2008 - 14:23

A chunk of ice shelf nearly the size of Manhattan has broken away  in Canada's northern Arctic, another indication of how warmer temperatures are changing the polar frontier, scientists said Wednesday.


 

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