{
  "id": 466072,
  "title": "Greenland glacier break creates new ice island",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/10/greenland-glacier-break-creates-new-ice-island",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-10T11:00:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-08-greenland-glacier-ice-island.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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 the glacier's largest loss of floating ice since 2012 and the largest Arctic calving event since 2020.",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}