A Manhattan-sized ice island has broken away from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier after years of growing fractures weakened its ...

An ice island the size of Manhattan broke away from one of Greenland's largest glaciers.

A huge section of Greenland’s Petermann Glacier has snapped off, forming an ice island about the size of Manhattan.

A huge section of Greenland’s Petermann Glacier has broken away, creating a rare Arctic ice island that scientists will now ...

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

For nearly a decade, Leigh Stearns and collaborators aimed a laser scanner system at Greenland's Helheim Glacier. Their long-running survey reveals that Helheim's massive calving events don't behave ...

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 ...

When massive blocks of ice detach from glaciers, it is known as calving. This process is one of the main ways that glaciers lose mass, and has long been a dramatic visualization of changes in ice ...

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