An ice island has broken off from one of the Greenland's two main glaciers. According to the NASA images, the island is about 259 square kilometres and the thickness is more than 200m.
The island will first enter the remote area Nares Strait which is 998km south of the North Pole between Greenland and Canada. The professor of ocean science and engineering of the University of Delaware, Andreas Muenchow comments that the direction of the moving of the island still unpredictable. It might move toward the land or break up into smaller pieces, slowly move to south. If this happens, it could block the shipping. He also says that the impacts of global warming is difficult to predict because the records on the sea water around the glacier were kept since 2003.
The main causes of this incident happened is the flow of the sea water below the glaciers.
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Global warming is the concern issue recently. Global warming brings many undesirable consequences to us. is The breaking off of the ice island is one of the consequences. This causes many inconvenient to people. So, everyone should take responsibility to the global warming issue and try to overcome it in order to save our earth.
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