Source: www.bbc.co.uk
LONDON, UK, August 7, 2010: A giant sheet of ice four tumes the area of Manhattan, measuring 260 sq km (100 sq miles), has broken off a glacier in Greenland according to researchers at a US university.
It is the largest Arctic iceberg to calve since 1962, said Prof Andreas Muenchow of the University of Delaware. There was enough fresh water locked up in the ice island to “keep all US public tap water flowing for 120 days,” said Prof Muenchow.
The first six months of 2010 have been the hottest on record globally, scientists have said.