Canada's last complete ice shelf has been demolished and plunged into the Arctic Ocean. Scientists reported on Friday at CBS News that the record lost almost half of its original size. It's a piece of about 80 square kilometers that has been detached from the country. That process only lasted a few days.

The 4000 year old Milne Ice Shelf is located on the outskirts of Ellesmere Island, in the northern territory of Nunavot. The record has decreased 43 percent in two days. According to experts from the Canadian ice service at the Department of the Environment, this is due to above-normal air temperatures, cold winds and open water for the ice shelf.

“This drastic decline of ice plates is clearly related to climate change,” said Luke Copeland, glacier specialist at the University of Ottawa. , This summer it is up to 5 degrees warmer than average in the period 1981-2010. And in this region, warming is two to three times as fast as elsewhere in the world. The Milne and other ice shelves in Canada are simply no longer viable. They will disappear for decades to come.”



Canada's last intact ice shelf collapses