CANADA’S HIGH Arctic has lost a huge area of ice shelves since the beginning of the year, according to reports from scientists at Trent University, in Ontario, Canada.
A recent alert says that at Ellesmere Island, the floating tongue of ice attached to the land, has seen almost a quarter of its cover break away.
The researchers point to warmer water and air temperatures as the main reasons for the break-up of the ice and add that these are affecting several other areas of the Arctic.
