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The Jellyfish Are Coming
They are gelatinous, pulsating, tentacled, and sometimes deadly. And they seem to be appearing in ever-increasing swarms across the oceans of the world.Watch the Petermann Crack Get Bigger
Look I know it's horrifying that this past July saw the further disintegration of Greenland's enormous, floating Petermann Glacier, with about 11 square miles of ice crumbling off. In fact, new satellite images show that right now the entire glacier is literally breaking in half, thus speeding up the general trend towards an iceless Arctic Ocean, rising waters, and accelerated climate change. But you have to admit that there's a terrible beauty in seeing 60-square-mile hunks of ice cracking open. Below, an animation shows the crack widening. More »A Plague of Jellyfish Headed for the U.K.