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Greenland glacier break creates new ice island

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Greenland glacier break creates new ice island

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An international research team partly led by the University of Ottawa reports that Petermann Glacier in northwest Greenland calved a 76.4 km² (29.5 square miles) ice island on Aug. 4, 2026, marking the glacier's largest loss of floating ice since 2012 and the largest Arctic calving event since 2020.

First report: 18-million-tonne section breaks away from Greenland glacier timesofindia.indiatimes.com, 4d

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