by David Sassoon -
Jul 30th, 2008 
It's like a bar of soap. If you use the soap over and over again, it gets thinner and thinner. Then all of a sudden, it could break.
Derek Mueller, Arctic expert, in the Toronto Globe and Mail, July 29, 2008
It just did. Another 4 square-kilometer chunk has snapped off the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf, the largest remaining in the Arctic. It's the largest break since 2005, when a 66 square kilometer chunk snapped off.
Mueller, a leading expert on the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf:
The take-home message for me is that these ice shelves are not regenerating.
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