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Greenland glacier break creates new ice island

Greenland glacier break creates new ice islandWorldPing

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.

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