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RedOrbit: Greenland`s icy reaches are far more vulnerable to warm ocean waters from climate change than had been thought, according to new research by UC Irvine and NASA glaciologists. The work, published May 18 in Nature Geoscience, shows previously uncharted deep valleys stretching for dozens of miles under the Greenland Ice Sheet.
The bedrock canyons sit well below sea level, meaning that as subtropical Atlantic waters hit the fronts of hundreds of glaciers, those edges will erode much further than had......
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Greenland Could Become Greater Contributor To Sea Level Rise Than Previously Expected
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 19th, 2014
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