Global warming continues to quietly take its toll, with the Wilkins Ice Shelf in Antarctica possibly the next major victim, as a strip of ice that was 100 km wide in 1950 narrows to just 500 metres at its thinnest point. The flat-topped shelf is thousands of square kilometres in area. Reuters
Posted by Ellen Wallace on 20 January 2009 at 8:12 | permalink
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News story, GenevaLunch, 20 January 2009.
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Tags: Antarctica, global warming, ice shelf, Wilkins
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