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Another whopping chunk of ice has broken free from Ellesmere Island in Canada’s northern Arctic. This Markham Ice Shelf, just one of five remaining shelves in the Canadian Arctic region, split away sometime in August. The shelf is gianormous. It’s 19-square miles, around the size of Manhattan, and now adrift in the Arctic Ocean. In addition, two other large chunks - totaling about 47 square miles - split [...]

Researchers at the University of Bristol report that the West Antarctic lost 132 billion tons of ice in 2006, compared to 83 billion tons in 1996. “To put these figures into perspective,” said professor Jonathan Bamber, “four billion tons of ice is enough to provide drinking water for the whole of the U.K. population for one year.”

Photo courtesy of Jerzy Strzelecki via Wikimedia [...]