Giant Ice Block Baffles Scientists Charlie Angela - Al Jazeera go to original August 11, 2010
Al Jazeera: The chunk of ice that broke off the glacier on Thursday is headed for the Nares Strait
The chunk of ice that broke off the glacier on Thursday is headed for the Nares Strait, the shipping waterway between Greenland and Canada. It is the biggest event in the Arctic in nearly half a century. Scientists are scrambling to understand the implications of a giant piece of ice breaking off a glacier bordering Greenland. Al Jazeera's Charlie Angela reports.