A chunk of Greenland's largest remaining ice shelf - larger than the city of Paris - has broken off into the Arctic due to rapid climate change, according to scientists. Researchers working for the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) studied satellite images of the ice shelf taken over over the past three decades and say rising temperatures have led to increasing ice shelf disintegration. Researchers working for the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) studied satellite images of the ice shelf taken over the past seven years. 'We should be very concerned about what appears to be progressive disintegration at the Arctic's largest remaining ice shelf,' GEUS professor Jason Box said. 'We saw this with Zachariae Glacier, this summer with Milne Ice Shelf in Canada, and now Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden Glacier is losing parts of its ice shelf as well.'

Source: Daily Mail September 14, 2020 15:11 UTC