Gigantic glacier may be headed for shipping lanes
(NEWSER) - Researchers are frantically calculating the trajectory of the 100-square-mile island of ice that broke off a Greenland glacier recently, afraid that it could easily drift down into the heavily-trafficked waters where another Greenland iceberg sank the Titanic. The chunk of ice is four times the size of Manhattan, and “so big that you can’t prevent it from drifting. You can’t stop it,” one glaciologist tells the AP . More»
