Friday, August 6, 2010

Giant ice island breaks off Greenland
[ Fri, 6 Aug 2010 23:05:36 GMT ]

Greenland's Petermann Glacier, shown in 2009, where an ice island about 100 square miles broke off Aug. 5, researchers say. Satellite imagery reveals that Petermann Glacier lost about one-quarter of its 43-mile-long floating ice-shelf.A chunk of ice four times the size of Manhattan has calved from Greenland's Petermann Glacier, scientists announced today.


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