A chunk of Greenland's ice cap, estimated to be 110 square kilometres, has broken off in the far north-east Arctic.
A chunk of Greenland's ice cap estimated to be 110 square kilometres has broken off in the far north-east Arctic.
Annual end-of-melt-season changes for the Arctic's largest ice shelf in the region are measured by optical satellite imagery."We should be very concerned about what appears to be progressive disintegration at the Arctic's largest remaining ice shelf," GEUS professor Jason Box said. Greenpeace spokeswoman Laura Meller spoke out from aboard the organisation's ship Arctic Sunrise at the edge of the sea ice.
Last week, Ruth Mottram, an ice scientist at the Danish Meteorological Institute in Copenhagen, said: "Again this year, the ice sheet has lost more ice than has been added in the form of snow."
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