Impact of global warming: The country's last 4,000-year-old iceberg also collapsed

Toronto, Ta. 09 August 2020, Sunday

Much of the final iceberg in Canada has collapsed due to warmer climates and rising global temperatures, turning it into vast iceberg islands. An iceberg is a floating piece of ice formed by the erosion of a glacier or glacier from the ground to the surface of the ocean.

According to scientists, Canada's 4,000-year-old iceberg on the northwest corner of Ellesmere Island was the country's last intact iceberg by the end of July. Adrian White, an ice analyst at the Canadian Snow Service, found that 43 percent of the images taken by satellite were broken. He said this is an event around July 30 or July 31.

White said the iceberg had broken into two huge icebergs as well as smaller ones, and that the iceberg had already begun to float. The largest glacier is about the size of Manhattan i.e. 55 square kilometers and this is 11.5 kilometers long. While its thickness is 230 to 260 feet. He said this is a huge, very large piece of ice.

"If any of them start moving towards the oil rig, there is nothing we can do to remove it," he said. Eventually the oil rig has to be removed and relocated. Spread over 187 square kilometers, the iceberg was larger than the size of the District of Columbia, but now only 41 percent, or 106 square kilometers, is left.

Luke Copeland, a professor of glacier science at the University of Ottawa, said temperatures in the region have risen by five degrees Celsius from May to early August, which is warmer than the average from 1980 to 2010. Temperatures here are rising even faster than rising temperatures in the Arctic region, which is already experiencing higher temperatures compared to other parts of the world.

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