Green Options » Baffin Island http://greenoptions.com/tag/baffin-island Posts tagged 'Baffin Island' Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:11:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Baffin Island Ice Caps: See Them While You Can http://ecoscraps.com/2008/01/28/baffin-island-ice-caps-see-them-while-you-can/ http://ecoscraps.com/2008/01/28/baffin-island-ice-caps-see-them-while-you-can/#comments Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:11:50 +0000 Shirley Siluk Gregory http://ecoscraps.com/2008/01/28/baffin-island-ice-caps-see-them-while-you-can/ A glacier on the northeast coast of Baffin Island (photo courtesy of Ansgar Walk).Researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder report that the northern plateau ice caps of Baffin Island have shrunk by more than half in the past 50 years. At that rate, they say, the ice caps will be gone by mid-century.

Photo courtesy of Ansgar Walk, via Wikimedia Commons

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