National Public Radio: Last week there were the pictures of an iceberg twice the size of Manhattan breaking off Greenland's Petermann Glacier. Now there are NASA images showing that in four days earlier this month, "Greenland's surface ice cover melted over a larger area than at any time in more than 30 years of satellite observations." The space agency adds that "nearly the entire ice cover of Greenland, from its thin, low-lying coastal edges to its two-mile-thick center, experienced some degree of melting at its...
URL: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/07/25/157343661/heat-dome-linked-to-greenlands-biggest-melt-in-30-years?ft=1&f=1025
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