Ice island survives run-in with Joe Island

Phys.org reports that summer two thousand twenty‑six was a prime iceberg season in Greenland's glacier‑fed fjords, and a massive iceberg broke away from the Petermann Glacier in August. The floating slab, about the size of St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands, is the largest Arctic calving event recorded since twenty twenty. Its sheer size underscores the scale of recent calving activity across the Arctic.

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