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Yale Environment 360: Rapidly melting glaciers, rain, and snow are combining to dump a massive amount of freshwater into the Gulf of Alaska, with important implications for ocean chemistry and marine biology, according to a new study. So much meltwater is now flowing into the Gulf of Alaska that if all the streams and other runoff sources were combined it would create the world’s sixth-largest coastal river, according to research in The Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. The collective discharge into the Gulf of......
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Glacial Melt and Precipitation Create Massive Runoff in Gulf of Alaska
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 20th, 2015
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