Iceberg Collapses and Flips over in Ilulissat, Greenland (July 25, 2026) [video]

Posted by Bender 15 hours ago

Iceberg Collapses and Flips over in Ilulissat, Greenland (July 25, 2026) [video](www.youtube.com)

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ilamont 11 hours ago|

Can more experienced people describe how to verify this video as non-AI generated? Is there a scientific source in Greenland or Denmark that tracks such incidents? Or could satellite passes before vs after confirm what happened?

LeoPanthera 11 hours ago|

It is the work of but a moment to check for trustworthy sources. It's sad that this skill seems to have been lost.

https://eu-space.europa.eu/components/earth-observation-cope...

https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cdx7lg950gdo

pixl97 15 hours ago||

4:40, so this is where people came up with the idea for Godzilla.

tristramb 12 hours ago||

Reminds me of a 'mimoid' from Stanisław Lem's Solaris.

jcranmer 15 hours ago||

Honestly, my first thought watching this video is "I want a root beer float." Something in the way the icefalls as the iceberg is flipping over just makes me think of that...

csnizik 15 hours ago||

Structural review clearly got skipped. Somebody is losing their job over this.

moffkalast 10 hours ago||

Gotta say, I haven't seen anything this jawdropping in a long while.

catlikesshrimp 15 hours ago||

I would have described flipping it over before collapsing. The title seems a clickbait, but is no quite that. Keep in mind that most of the iceberg is off camera, as shown during the first minutes. It lost 80% or 90% of its total mass but most of it isn't seen until the end, when the iceberg goes back to the right.

maxlin 14 hours ago||

now that's epic!

programmertote 15 hours ago|

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margalabargala 15 hours ago||

Glaciers have been calving huge icebergs into the sea for as long as glaciers have met ocean. Those icebergs eventually melt and collapse just like this.

Rising temps contribute to the rate at which icebergs are produced and the speed at which they melt, but there's nothing in this video in particular that wouldn't have happened 200 years ago aside from the motorboat going by at the beginning.

blondie9x 14 hours ago||

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Espressosaurus 15 hours ago||

Look at the glacial retreat around the mouth of the fjord (which is why tourists go to the town) and yeah, the amount of change is insane.

Any particular iceberg isn't that interesting, but the source! That’s the sad part.