World: There’s a really big piece of ice that fell off of Greenland
- 260 the size of the chunk in square kilometers
- 100 the size of the chunk in square miles; in other words, huge source
World: The phrase “change at a glacial pace” now means “change quickly”
The U.S. Geological Survey’s Global Fiducials Library has a pretty scary selection of glacier photos which show things melting at pretty scary rates.
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