THE new edition of the Times Comprehensive Atlas Of The World has turned an area of Greenland the size of Britain and Ireland “green”, as it charts the retreat of once-permanent ice cover.

SATELLITE images from the European Space Agency (ESA) show massive amounts of ice are breaking away from an ice shelf on the western side of the Antarctic Peninsula, researchers said.

AN ice bridge which had apparently held a vast Antarctic ice shelf in place during recorded history has shattered and could herald a wider collapse linked to global warming, a leading scientist said.