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Hot summer for a cold island

By Stephen Ornes / August 24, 2012
The large iceberg at top-left in this satellite photograph broke off from a frozen river in July. The ice island is twice the size of Manhattan. Higher temperatures around Greenland probably caused the breakup. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen

A rare heat wave rolled over Greenland in July, thawing its ice and snow

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