VIDEO: Ice Shelves Crumbling in Canada

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September 4, 2008—A Manhattan-size ice chunk, from an ice shelf believed to be thousands of years old, is among many pieces breaking off shelves in the Canadian Arctic this summer.

© 2008 National Geographic (AP)

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