Mongabay: A 119-square-kilometer (46-square-mile) iceberg twice the size of Manhattan has broken off Greenland's Petermann Glacier, report researchers from the the University of Delaware and the Canadian Ice Service. The break in the ice sheet, which has been anticipated for years, was detected Monday by the MODIS sensor onboard Terra and Aqua satellites. The iceberg was first reported by the Canadian Ice Service. While large, the iceberg is only half the size of an ice island that broke off the same...
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