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Title: Antarctic ice shelf 'hanging by thread': European scientists Post by: Allhallowsday on July 10, 2008, 04:20:24 PM Antarctic ice shelf 'hanging by thread': European scientists
PARIS (AFP) - New evidence has emerged that a large plate of floating ice shelf attached to Antarctica is breaking up, in a troubling sign of global warming, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Thursday. Images taken by its Envisat remote-sensing satellite show that Wilkins Ice Shelf is "hanging by its last thread" to Charcot Island, one of the plate's key anchors to the Antarctic peninsula, ESA said in a press release... http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080710/sc_afp/warmingantarcticaice (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080710/sc_afp/warmingantarcticaice) |