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Satellite sees Greenland's floating ice loss | Space photo of the day for Aug. 24, 2026

A fractured "ice tongue" is visible in the imagery.

Decades-old Greenland glacier made a dramatic move. Researchers are watching closely

A Manhattan-sized ice island has broken away from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier, marking the glacier’s largest loss of ...

Satellite sees Greenland's most significant floating ice loss in over a decade | Space photo of the day for Aug. 24, 2026

On August 4, 2026, the European Space Agency's Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission captured imagery of the glacier that revealed ...

A Manhattan-Sized Ice Island Just Broke Off Greenland

A massive slab of floating ice broke away from Petermann Glacier in northwest Greenland on August 4, 2026, creating a 76.4 ...
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Greenland glacier break creates new ice island

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 ...