I almost posted about this a few weeks back but lost the link, here is an update on that story from CNN.com:
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SANTIAGO, Chile (Reuters) — Scientists said that a lake in southern Chile that mysteriously disappeared last month developed a crack which allowed the water to drain away.
A buildup of water opened a crack in an ice wall along one side of the lake.
Water flowed through the crack into a nearby fjord and from there into the sea, leaving behind a dry lake-bed littered with icebergs, scientists told Chilean state television Tuesday.
“It looks like it’s slowly filling up with water again,” said Andres Rivera, a glacier expert who headed a team which recently flew over the lake in a bid to solve the mystery.
The lake is situated in the Magallanes region in Patagonia and is fed by melt-water from glaciers.
Earlier this year it had a surface area of 10-12 acres — about the size of 10 soccer fields.
Scientists noticed it had disappeared during a routine patrol of the area in May.
Interesting that they’re not mentioning global warming here…
Yeah, true, I guess because at least if that happened they probably would know what happened to the water, here, they don’t really know, they think they know, but they’re not sure.
Why else would an iceberg be melting, though?
you know what, I didn’t even think of that.