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Why massive Greenland glacier is melting from below

2015-11-18 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Christian Science Monitor: A massive glacier in northeast Greenland, named Zachariae Isstrom, has come detached from a stabilizing sill and is rapidly melting into the North Atlantic Ocean, according to a new study. Zachariae Isstrom began "accelerated retreat" in 2012 and is currently melting at a rate of 5 billion tons per year, a team of scientists from NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the University of Kansas, and the University of California-Irvine published in the journal Science last week. This spells bad news...

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