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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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Iceberg the size of Singapore could threaten shipping lanes as researchers race to track it
2013-11-13 12:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: An iceberg which is estimated to be around the size of Manhattan or Singapore could threaten shipping if it drifts into busy international lanes. UK researchers have now been given an emergency grant to track the iceberg which is approximately 270 square miles in size. The giant block of ice broke away from the Pine Island Glacier in July but it was iced-in due to the freezing winter temperatures in Antarctica. While the iceberg could move eastwards along the Antarctic coast, it could also...
Massive Iceberg Breaks off Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica
2013-07-10 21:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: An enormous slab of ice, about a quarter the size of Rhode Island and some 200 feet thick, has broken away from Antarctica, according to German researchers. The event, which was recorded by radar aboard Germany's orbiting TerraSAR-X satellite, was not unexpected. In 2011, a NASA satellite noted that a huge crack had appeared in the ice shelf at the outlet of the frozen continent's Pine Island Glacier. "At some point, it had to happen,' said Angelika Humbert, a glaciologist at the Alfred Wegener...
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Iceberg size of Chicago breaks off Antarctica glacier
2013-07-10 19:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: A massive iceberg, larger than the city of Chicago, broke off of Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier on Monday, July 8, and is now floating freely in the Amundsen Sea, according to a team of German scientists. The newborn iceberg measures about 278 square miles (720 square kilometers), and was seen by TerraSAR-X, an earth-observing satellite operated by the German Space Agency (DLR). Scientists with NASA's Operation IceBridgefirst discovered a giant crack in the Pine Island Glacier in October 2011,...
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Enormous City-sized Iceberg Breaks off Antarctic Glacier
2013-07-10 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: An enormous iceberg with an area about eight times the size of Manhattan has broken off an Antarctic glacier. A huge crack along the surface of Pine Island Glacier (PIG), the longest and fastest shrinking glacier in the Antarctic, finally spread completely across the glacier's surface, creating the 278 square mile (720 sq km) iceberg. Scientists had suspected such a thing would occur since 2011 when they first noticed the crack. Confirmation that the iceberg had broken off the glacier was made...
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