Huge chunk of ice breaks off Greenland glacier

A block of ice four times the size of Manhattan has split off and melted from a Greenland glacier–an event so dramatic that it’s shocked the scientists who study the area. Alun Hubbard of Aberystwyth University, Wales, said he was rendered “speechless” when he saw the now much smaller Petermann glacier. The break happened in

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Huge chunk of ice breaks off Greenland glacier

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