Ripples in Arctic become surging waves along Mid-Atlantic

Delaware Online: Up in the Arctic – where temperatures have risen 3.5 degrees in the last 40 years – an island-size chunk of ice broke off this summer from the Petermann Glacier, one of the two largest glaciers left in Greenland. It may seem distant, but "what happens in Greenland does not stay in Greenland," said University of Delaware researcher Andreas Muenchow. "A first Manhattan-sized section of the 2010 ice island breaking off from Petermann Glacier arrived off Newfoundland last summer where it melted....

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