image: NASA
NASA‘s just released some pretty dramatic satellite photos of the north branch of Greenland’s Jakobshavn glacier from July 6 and 7–when an area of ice 2.7 square miles in size ( more than twice the size of New York City’s Central Park), where the glacier meets the ocean, broke up overnight and the glacier retreated one mile inland. That’s as much retreat in one night as the average for nearly two years…. Read the full story on TreeHugger