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Greenland's Jakobshavn Glacier is Moving 10 Miles Per Year, Recording-Breaking Speed

2014-02-03 20:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Nature World: The massive Arctic glacier believed to be responsible for calving the iceberg that sunk the Titanic is moving from the Greenland ice sheet and into the ocean at record speeds, according to a study in the journal The Cryosphere. Jakobshavn Glacier is moving at a speed that appears the be the fastest ever recorded, researchers from the University of Washington and the German Space Agency (DLR) report. "We are now seeing summer speeds more than four times what they were in the 1990s on a glacier...

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