Greenland glacier calves island 4 times the size of Manhattan

Saturday, August 7, 2010 - 04:35 in Earth & Climate

A University of Delaware 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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