News | Focus Out of Equilibrium? The World’s Changing Ice Cover

• Main Author: Paul Souders Worldfoto
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: Arctic; Greenland; Ilulissat; Kujalleq; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; glacier; Global warming; Human health; Ice Sheet; Iceberg*; Jakobshavn; National Snow and Ice Data Center; Petermann glacier; Sermeq Kujalleq
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.292.3890

size of Manhattan broke off Greenland’s northwestern coast and began drifting out to the sea. At nearly 100 square miles, this was the largest iceberg to appear in Arctic waters since 1962 and a fresh indicator that Greenland’s frozen landscape is undergoing significant changes. 1 Originally part of...