Greenland's Melting Glaciers Threaten Accelerated Sea Level Rise
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Daily tides stoked with increasingly warmer water ate a hole taller than the Washington Monument at the bottom of one of Greenland’s major glaciers in the last couple of years, accelerating the retreat of a crucial part of the glacier, a study found. The rapid melt seen in this study was in the far northwest of Greenland on Petermann Glacier. If it is happening in the rest of Greenland and the even bigger Antarctic ice sheet, then global ice loss and the sea level rise could jump as much as twice as fast as previously thought, according to the study in Monday’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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- Glacier in northwest Greenland suggests sea level rise is underestimated Axios
- Rapid melting of Petermann Glacier signals even worse sea level rise Earth.com
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