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Just how fast is Greenland melting?
Posted by Christian Science Monitor: Olivia Lowenberg on December 17th, 2015
Christian Science Monitor: A new study tracks how Greenland's ice structure has changed over time, including how the melting rate has accelerated in recent years.
This latest study, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, tracks how Greenland’s ice mass and structure has changed over a 110-year period. This fills in crucial gaps in knowledge about Greenland’s role in sea-level rise, for which little data has existed until now.
“We have observation-based estimates that is new and super important,” Kristian Kjellerup...