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LiveScience.com): Glaciers may seem to be all ice, but it turns out they can be soggy with water, a finding that should help researchers understand how glaciers slide toward the sea, and improve their predictions about rising sea levels in the face of climate change. "Adding water to the base of glaciers and ice sheets can make them speed up," said glacialogist Joel Harper of the University of Montana at Missoula, who with his colleagues discovered an unexpected amount of water near the bottom of a ......
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Glaciers May Have Soggier Bottoms Than Thought
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 29th, 2010
Posted in Water Conservation