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Scientists warn that newly discovered Greenland melting could accelerate sea-level rise

2014-03-17 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ClimateWire: A large area of the Greenland ice sheet once considered stable is actually shedding massive amounts of ice, suggesting that future sea-level rise may be worse than expected, a team of scientists warned yesterday in a new study. Regional warming has triggered newly discovered ice melting in a large portion of northeastern Greenland. The area, marked NEGIS, covers about 16 percent of the island's thick ice sheet. (Most-rapid melting is indicated in red.) Map courtesy of Ohio State University. The...

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