Thousands of these events occurred in Greenland calving every year, ranging from the mundane to the light. This latest calving is not use both in terms of size, with an area of 120 square km (46 sq mi), is about half the size of the iceberg that broke from the same glacier in 2010. Loomed much larger in the future outbreak of Pine Island Glacier is in Antarctica - which has demonstrated its 30km-long gap - hinting at the catastrophic events that will release an iceberg 800 miles square. Important to remember that this is a natural process and periodic been going on since long before we were here to take a satellite photo. What is at issue is whether the frequency of occurrence changed, and why.
