Canada's last intact ice shelf has collapsed, researchers announced Thursday.
The Arctic has been warming at a rate twice that of the rest of the world.
Two of Canada’s ice caps, located on the Hazen Plateau in St. Patrick Bay, disappeared completely this summer.A huge section of the Milne Ice Shelf, located on Ellesmere Island in the northern Canadian territory of Nunavut, collapsed into the Arctic Ocean, according to theAs a comparison, Manhattan Island is about 23 square miles.
“Entire cities are that size. These are big pieces of ice,” Luke Copland, a glaciologist at the University of Ottawa who was part of the research team studying the ice shelf, toldThe ice service said on Twitter that “above-normal air temperatures, offshore winds and open water in front of the ice shelf are all part of the recipe for ice shelf break up.
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