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On 4 August 2026, a Manhattan-sized section of Greenland’s Petermann Glacier broke free, creating a 76-square-kilometre ice island—and scientists say existing fractures are preparing two even larger pieces to detach behind it.
For a place so remote that almost nobody will ever see it from the ground, Petermann Glacier produced an unusually well-observed rupture. On 3 August 2026, European radar satellites recorded pronounced deterioration through the centre of its floating tongue. By 4 August, a 76-square-kilometre slab had separated from the eastern side and become an ice island. The new iceberg is roughly Manhattan-sized in area and may be as much as 150 metres thic…
In the early days of August 2026, an island of ice as vast as Manhattan detached from the Petermann Glacier, in Greenland's northwest. This breakout is described in a press release published by the University of Ottawa, after several years of waiting. Glacier specialists controlled from space the evolution of fractures on this floating frozen extension. These masses are unusual on the Arctic side, unlike the Antarctic seas. Two more pieces could…
A 76 km² block of ice broke off from the Petermann Glacier, located in northwestern Greenland, in a calving event that occurred in early August. This loss represents the largest amount of floating ice lost by the glacier since 2012 and is considered the most significant calving event in the Arctic since 2020. The calving event was recorded by images of the Petermann Glacier, which has an ice tongue that extended for about 70 km. The rupture of t…
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