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Antarctic - NYC- sized ice slab breaks off [1]

An area of an Antarctic ice shelf almost the size of New York City has broken into icebergs in April after the collapse of an ice bridge widely blamed on global warming, a scientist said on Tuesday.

Publication Date: 
29/04/2009
Asian Age (New Delhi) [2]
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Climate Change [3], Climate Impacts [4], Glacial Melt [5], Research Agencies [6], Antarctica [7]
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