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New York Times: Greenland`s glaciers are melting faster than they used to, contributing to the rise of sea levels worldwide. While warmer atmospheric temperatures thin all the glaciers from above, scientists have wondered if warmer waters are also melting the many glaciers that flow into the fjords. Two studies published in Nature Geoscience provide evidence that this is the case. In one study, Fiammetta Straneo of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and colleagues looked at water ......
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Greenland: Fjords Contribute to Melting of Glaciers
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 16th, 2010
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