News Stories  Northern Climates Warming Fast  Birds react by
moving north - There is a colossal ice shelf collapse going on
in our close neighbor Canada. Farther away, Greenland's glaciers
are not doing well. That's not the only thing that's happening
in the North: Bird habitats are moving that way, as the weather
gets warmer.  The ice shelves in Canada have lost a huge amount
of ice this year?ice which had been in place for thousands of
years. Now almost one-fourth of it is gone. BBC News quotes
researcher Derek Mueller as saying, "These changes are
irreversible under the present climate."  Northern Greenland was
so far north in the Arctic that scientists thought it might not
experience global warming, but now satellites show a giant
crack?7 miles long and half a mile wide in a glacier there that
seems to be spreading. Also, an 11-square-mile chunk has fallen
off another large glacier in the area. This could raise the sea
level, drowning the country. It could also be dangerous in other
ways.  In Yahoo News,