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Thursday, April 26, 2007

New Scientist Environment Blog

New Scientist Environment Blog:
As a poster-child for climate change, it's probably as good as it gets. A previously unknown island has emerged from beneath melted ice off the east coast of Greenland.

We knew the land was there, but until Arctic explorer Dennis Schmitt, from California, spotted a thawed strait on an expedition in summer 2005, no-one had realised that the island was not connected to the mainland. Schmitt has named the new island Uunartoq Qeqertoq, which means "the warming island".
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