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Thursday, May 22, 2014

Greenland will be far greater contributor to sea rise than expected

Greenland will be far greater contributor to sea rise than expected
Irvine CA (SPX) May 22, 2014 - 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 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 ... morehttp://www.terradaily.com/reports/Greenland_will_be_far_greater_contributor_to_sea_rise_than_expected_999.html
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