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Small glaciers — not large — account for most of Greenland’s recent loss of ice, study shows
Sep 15th, 2008 by Administrator |

EurekAlert: The recent dramatic melting and breakup of a few huge Greenland glaciers have fueled public concerns over the impact of global climate change, but that isn’t the island’s biggest problem. A new study shows that the dozens of much smaller outflow glaciers dotting Greenland’s coast together account for three times more loss from the island’s ice sheet than the amount coming from their huge relatives. In a study just published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, …

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