Thursday, September 24, 2009

Greenland Glaciers


FILE - An iceberg melts off Ammassalik Island in Eastern Greenland in this July 19, 2007 file photo. New satellite information shows that ice sheets in Greenland and western Antarctica continue to shrink faster than scientists thought and in some places are already in runaway melt mode. In some parts of Antarctica, ice sheets have been losing 30 feet a year in thickness since 2003, according to a paper published online Thursday in the journal Nature.

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