Mongabay: Four weeks before Greenland's melting season usually ends, it has already blown past all previous records. By August 8th, nearly a month before cooler weather usually sets in around the world's largest island, the island toppled the past record set in 2010.
"With more yet to come in August, this year's overall melting will fall way above the old records. That's a goliath year-the greatest melt since satellite recording began in 1979," said Earth and atmospheric scientist Marco Tedesco in a press......
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Greenland suffers record melt
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 16th, 2012
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