Greenland glacier calves island four times the size of Manhattan

Friday, August 6, 2010 - 16:35 in Earth & Climate

A researcher reports that an "ice island" four times the size of Manhattan has calved from Greenland's Petermann Glacier. The last time the Arctic lost such a large chunk of ice was in 1962.

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