Big chunk of Greenland ice cap breaks off

Updated September 14 2020 - 9:46pm, first published 9:42pm
Ice cap losses each exceeded 50sq km in Northeast Greenland for the past two years.
Ice cap losses each exceeded 50sq km in Northeast Greenland for the past two years.

A big chunk of Greenland's ice cap, estimated to be some 110 square kilometres, has broken off in the far northeast Arctic which scientists say is evidence of rapid climate change.

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