TORONTO : A chunk of ice shelf nearly the size of Manhattan has broken away from Ellesmere Island in Canada's northern Arctic, another dramatic indication of how warmer temperatures are changing the polar frontier, scientists said yesterday. Derek Mueller, an Arctic ice shelf specialist at Trent University in Ontario, said in an interview that the 4,500-year-old Markham Ice Shelf separated in early August and the 19-square-mile shelf is now adrift in the Arctic Ocean. Mueller also said that two large sections of ice detached from the Serson Ice Shelf, shrinking that ice feature by 47 square miles and that the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf has also continued to break up, losing an additional eight square miles.
More of ancient walls of Jerusalem are found
JERUSALEM: Israeli archaeologists say they have uncovered new sections of Jerusalem's ancient walls, continuing a project started more than a century ago. Yehiel Zelinger of the Israel Antiquities Authority said yesterday that he located two wall segments just south of the Old City. The project continues work begun in the 1890s by American archaeologist Frederick Bliss and his British assistant, Archibald Dickie. The two tunneled along the length of the ancient wall and marked its route.
