Climate: Is the Greenland ice sheet slip-sliding away?

Summit Voice: A team of Boulder-based researchers is trying to determine whether Greenland`s ice sheet is about to slip off the island and into the sea due to massive releases of meltwater from surface lakes. Those events have become increasingly frequent, especially in warmer years, and may affect sea-level rise, with implications for coastal communities, according to the researchers with the University of Colorado Boulder-based Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences. While previous...

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