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A floating ice mass the size of Manhattan just broke free in Greenland

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A massive slab of ice has broken away from one of Greenland’s largest glaciers, creating a rare Arctic ice island roughly the size of Manhattan and giving researchers a new opportunity to study changes taking place in the polar environment. Scientists say the event marks the largest loss of floating ice from Petermann Glacier since 2012, according to phys.org.

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