According to independent scientists travelling on a Greenpeace ship in the Arctic, an ice island in the region is on the verge of breaking off from the largest ice glacier located in the northern hemisphere. It is said that the island, once it breaks off, will weigh several million tones. In fact, the researchers say that there will be, altogether, 5 billion tones of ice separating and crumbling from the Petermann Glacier, located on the north-west coast of Greenland. more »