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Accelerated Ice Melt Causing Iceland to Rise

2015-02-02 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate Central: Parts of Iceland are rising, and the culprit may be climate change. GPS measurements show that land in the central and southern parts of Iceland have been rising at a faster pace every year, beginning at about the same time as the onset of the ever-increasing melt of the island's eponymous ice due to rising temperatures, a new study finds. One of 62 GPS stations scattered around Iceland that have detected the land rising in response to glacier melt. Langjökull glacier is in the background....

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