new greenland ice cracks worry scientists

In northern Greenland, a part of the Arctic that had seemed immune from global warming, new satellite images show a growing giant crack.....

And that's led the university professor who spotted the wounds in the massive Petermann glacier to predict disintegration of a major portion of the Northern Hemisphere's largest floating glacier within the year.

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Comments

[Rhea]

This kind of news is some of the most distressing of all the global climate change news there is. These ice shelves formed over eons. How can they ever be replaced?

[Sujatin]

It's extremely troubling, isn't it? I hope we are not too late ....and fear that we may be.