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Daily Climate: The icebergs looked impenetrable. Roman Motyka needed a route through.
"If you see an opening anywhere, let me know," said the University of Alaska Fairbanks glaciologist, at the wheel of a small skiff puttering through the ice-choked bay off the Gulf of Alaska.
Beyond the iceberg maze loomed the nose of a glacier that, contrary to a warming climate, is advancing into the sea. Motyka and his team were here - in one of the most ice-covered regions on the planet - to find out why.
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A glacier in flux plunges seaward
Posted by Daily Climate: Nathan Rice on January 2nd, 2011
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