{"id":3035,"date":"2026-08-21T08:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T08:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2026\/08\/21\/sentinel-1-captures-major-ice-loss-from-greenland-glacier\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T08:22:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T08:22:00","slug":"sentinel-1-captures-major-ice-loss-from-greenland-glacier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2026\/08\/21\/sentinel-1-captures-major-ice-loss-from-greenland-glacier\/","title":{"rendered":"Sentinel-1 captures major ice loss from Greenland glacier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2026\/08\/petermann_glacier_calves_huge_iceberg\/27425701-1-eng-GB\/Petermann_Glacier_calves_huge_iceberg_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"Petermann Glacier calves huge iceberg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Europe\u2019s Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission has captured a dramatic change at Petermann Glacier in northwest Greenland, where a 76 sq km section of the glacier\u2019s floating ice tongue broke away on 4 August 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The event marks the glacier\u2019s largest loss of floating ice since 2012 and the most significant calving event in the Arctic since 2020 \u2013 revealing once again how rapidly Earth\u2019s polar landscapes can change.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe\u2019s Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission has captured a dramatic change at Petermann Glacier in northwest Greenland, where a 76 sq km section of the glacier\u2019s floating ice tongue broke away on 4 August 2026. The event marks the glacier\u2019s largest loss of floating ice since 2012 and the most significant calving event in the Arctic since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}