Canadian Arctic glacier melt accelerating, irreversible
Tuesday, March 12, 2013 - 14:31
in Earth & Climate
Ongoing glacier loss in the Canadian high Arctic is accelerating and probably irreversible, new model projections suggest. The Canadian high Arctic is home to the largest clustering of glacier ice outside of Greenland and Antarctica -- 146,000 square kilometers (about 60,000 square miles) of glacier ice spread across 36,000 islands.