Global Warming creates an Island

A new island has appeared off the coast of Greenland. It has separated from the mainland by the melting of Greenland's enormous ice sheet.

The US Geological Survey has confirmed its existence with satellite photos, that show it as an integral part of the Greenland coast in 1985, but linked by only a small ice bridge in 2002, and completely separate by the summer of 2005. It is now a striking island of high peaks and rugged rocky slopes plunging steeply to a sea dotted with icebergs.