A new study evaluates the impact of such a disaster in Canada's Rankin Inlet and finds an oil spill there would be uniquely devastating, owing to the challenge of mounting a cleanup in such a harsh environment.
Icebergs breaking off of glaciers is a normal, natural event, called calving. But in the coming years on a relentlessly warming planet, marine researchers expect more icebergs as warmer ocean waters melt more ice.
