Arctic Ice Shelf Broke Off Canadian Island
A 25-square-mile shelf of floating ice that jutted into the Arctic Ocean for 3,000 years from Canada’s northernmost shore broke away abruptly in the summer of 2005, apparently freed by sharply warming temperatures and jostling wind and waves, scientists said yesterday.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/30/science/earth/30ice.html?ref=science