The piece of ice, twice the size of Manhattan (around 46 square miles) according to the Washington Post,xonstituted around one-third of the Petermann Glacier.
The separation along Greenland’s northwest coast took place on 16th July. It is the second major loss of ice from the glacier in the past three years.
Andreas Muenchow, an associate professor of physical ocean science and engineering at the University of Delaware, said the glacier’s end point is now at “a location where it has not been for at least 150 years.”
“The Greenland ice sheet is changing rapidly before our eyes,” Andreas Muenchow, an associate professor of physical ocean science and engineering at the University of Delaware, told the Washington Post, adding that this is part of the broader picture of climate change.
Scientists will now closely monitor whether the glacier's flow rate will accelerate.
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