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National Public Radio: An island of ice more than four times the size of Manhattan is drifting across the Arctic Ocean after breaking off from a glacier in Greenland. Potentially in the path of this unstoppable giant are oil platforms and shipping lanes - and any collision could do untold damage. In a worst case scenario, large chunks could reach the heavily trafficked waters where another Greenland iceberg sank the Titanic in 1912. It's been a summer of near biblical climatic havoc across the ......
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Huge Ice Island Could Pose Threat To Oil, Shipping
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 11th, 2010
Posted in Water Conservation