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5. What is Europe’s biggest glacier? Why is it breaking up? What consequence if it breaks up?

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GLASGOW, Scotland -- Europe's largest glacier is on the verge of breaking up as a result of incre"Effectively, the glacier is breaking up around that hole and is slipping into the fjord. It is beginning to disintegrate and in the next few years will collapse into the water."

But he dismisses panic theories that the loss of the glacier is man-made or even permanent.

"It really is not a human-induced situation," he said. "This glacier is receding from the coast because it advanced to the coast during what is known as the Little Ice Age.

"Relatively speaking, things have become warmer, but they were warm before the Little Ice Age."

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http://archives.cnn.com/2000/WORLD /europe/10/23/iceland. glacier/index.html

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