A NASA image shows the large chunk of ice breaking away from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier. Credit: NASA While the Senate, the White House, and delegates in Bonn at the international climate negotiations dither, Mother Nature keeps the hits coming. Russia is of course baking in record heat and now the Petermann Glacier in northern Greenland has lost an iceberg of 87 square kilometers in size. For scale, the ice sheet is said to be 4 times the size of Manhattan. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Another Crack: Petermann Glacier, Giant Ice Island, Breaks Off Into The Sea
