Everybody panic: Area of "huge" new iceberg is only 1,000 times less than the growth of Arctic sea ice since July 2007

Huge ice sheet breaks off Greenland glacier, moves south

The iceberg measures 100 sq miles, or 260 sq km, which is about one quarter of the entire Petermann Glacier's floating ice shelf.

Arctic Sea Ice News & Analysis

Average ice extent for July was 8.39 million square kilometers (3.24 million square miles), 1.71 million square kilometers (660,000 square miles) below the 1979 to 2000 mean, but 260,000 square kilometers (100,000 square miles) above the average for July 2007, the lowest July in the thirty-two-year satellite record.