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Chunk of Greenland glacier breaks up overnight
WASHINGTON - A seven square kilometre section of a Greenlands Jakobshavn Isbrae glacier broke up July 6 and 7.
The chunk of lost ice is roughly one-eighth the size of Manhattan Island, New York.
The calving front - where the ice sheet meets the ocean - retreated nearly 1.5 km in one day and is now further inland than at any time previously observed.
WASHINGTON - A seven square kilometre section of a Greenlands Jakobshavn Isbrae glacier broke up July 6 and 7.
The chunk of lost ice is roughly one-eighth the size of Manhattan Island, New York.
The calving front - where the ice sheet meets the ocean - retreated nearly 1.5 km in one day and is now further inland than at any time previously observed.