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Alaskas Heat Wave Ignites Fires as Glaciers Rapidly Melt
2015-06-19 15:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Climate change has caused Alaskas glaciers to melt so quickly that a one-foot thick layer of water could completely cover the entire state of Alaska every seven years, according to a new study. Alaskan glaciers have lost 75 billion metric tons of ice every year from 1994 through 2013, The Washington Post's Chris Mooney reported from the study, which was recently accepted for publication in the peer-reviewed Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union. Mooney also reported...
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