A 113 square km sheet of ice has broken away from the Arctic's largest remaining ice shelf, researchers have said.
Satellite imagery of the Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden Glacier, in northeast Greenland, shows the huge slab of ice having broken away last month and splintering into smaller fragments. The fractured area itself is a northern tributary called the Spalte Glacier, and has been under the watchful eye of scientists for years as increasingly warm temperatures led to its gradual disintegration.
"When you observe large parts of an ice shelf breaking off you do raise an eyebrow, but with current developments in the Arctic there is also the realisation that this is to be expected," Dr Niels J. Korsgaard, a researcher at The Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland , said.The glacier has lost around 160 square miles since 1999.
The huge shelf, which is around 70km in length and 20km in width, has lost more than 50 square miles of its mass each year for the last two years, according to GEUS.
I see Banksy has graffitied a Storm Trooper on it already.
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Bull💩
Then tell the super rich to stop polluting the Earth.
the hunt for an acorn chasing squirrel is under way
You lost me at Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden !
Tell California to stop burning shit and polluting the atmosphere 🤣
And?
This is a Emergency. If it carries on like this. There will be no Antarctica.