<p>A team of researchers from New York University (NYU) recorded a four-mile iceberg, big enough to stretch from lower Manhattan to Midtown in New York City, breaking away from a glacier in eastern Greenland on June 22.</p><p>Such events are one of the main forces</a> behind the global rise of sea-levels. David Holland, the research team leader at NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematics, said that global sea-level rise is “both undeniable and consequential”.</p><p>The team’s logistics coordinator, Denise Holland, said that understanding the phenomenon, known as calving, could help predict and plan for the effects of climate change.</p><p>The video was recorded over a period of 30 minutes, but is condensed into one minute, 40 seconds. Credit: Denise Holland/NYU via Storyful</p><br />
