A Manhattan-sized ice island has broken free from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier, and scientists say even bigger breaks may be coming. Europe’s Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission has documented a major breakup at Petermann Glacier in northwest Greenland, where a 76 sq km portion of the glacier’s floating ice tongue separated on August 4, 2026. The loss is [...] Greenland Just Lost a Manhattan-Sized Slab of Ice
A Manhattan-sized ice island has broken free from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier, and scientists say even bigger breaks may be coming. Europe’s Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission has documented a major breakup at Petermann Glacier in northwest Greenland, where a 76 sq km portion of the glacier’s floating ice tongue separated on August 4, 2026. The loss is [...] 

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