Massive Ice Island Breaks Off Greenland Glacier | Video

Friday, October 19, 2012 - 14:01 in Earth & Climate

An island of ice half the size of Manhattan broke off Greenland's Petermann Glacier this past summer. Called 'calving', this is the second time in three years a piece of ice this large as broken off the glacier.

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