Huge Greenland iceberg starts to go to pieces

Monday, September 17, 2012 - 20:00 in Earth & Climate

Off the coast of northwest Greenland, an enormous iceberg is beginning to go to pieces. The huge ice chunk, named PII-2012, was originally part of the Petermann Glacier, but broke away from the glacier in mid-July in a process called calving.

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