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Climate change: Greenland loses a trillion tonnes of ice in four years as melting rate triples
2016-07-21 12:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Its no news that Greenland is in serious trouble -- but now, new research has helped quantify just how bad its problems are. A satellite study, published last week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, suggests that the Greenland ice sheet lost a whopping 1 trillion tonnes of ice between the years 2011 and 2014 alone. And a big portion of it came from just five glaciers, about which scientists now have more cause to worry than ever. Its the latest story in a long series of increasingly...
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