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Giant Antarctic iceberg could pose hazard to shipping lanes, scientists warn

2013-11-13 14:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Independent: A giant Antarctic iceberg has broken free of the continent and could be about to drift into busy international shipping lanes, a team of British scientists has warned. The Government has awarded experts with an emergency grant of 50,000 to fund a six-month project in which they will try to track the progress of the ice and predict its movements. The University of Sheffields Professor Grant Bigg, a leading authority on modelling the dynamics of icebergs, is heading up the investigation that...

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