Manhattan-size Iceberg Contributes to Sea-level Rise

The process of glacial calving is perfectly natural, but the speed at which it's happening is not. Recent satellite images suggest that one of the world's largest ice sheets may be losing ice faster than it can accumulate, and the loss of ice is contributing to rising sea levels.

Between Aug. 6 and 16, two European Space Agency satellites captured before and after photos of one of the most significant glacial calving events on record. According to an Aug. 21 ESA report, the images show that an iceberg broke away from western Greenland's Jakobshavn glacier. ESA scientists say the iceberg is roughly 1400 meters deep with a surface area of about 12.5 square kilometers—big enough to suffocate Manhattan in a 300-meter deep blanket of ice. ...Read More Here