Christian Science Monitor: An Alaskan glacier has lost its footing with the seafloor and is floating in the ocean, new first-of-their-kind observations show. The observations have implications for predicting the sea level rise that could accompany global warming and the melting of glaciers around the world. Glaciers are huge rivers of ice formed when snow and ice accumulate over hundreds and thousands of years. They are found at the Earth's poles and in some mountain ranges. These icy rivers move slowly ......
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Alaskan glacier detaches itself from seafloor, goes rogue
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 17th, 2010
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