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Are ice streams contributing to the rise of ocean levels?
2016-02-18 12:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: A study released Wednesday in the journal Nature suggests that the recent thinning behavior of ice streams in some of the world's largest glaciers may not point to as grim a climate scenario as was once thought. Ice streams, or fast-moving regions of massive ice sheets glaciers larger than 19,000 square miles have become a cause for concern in recent years as their retreat in the world's only major ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctic has been linked to sea level rise. But the new study may...
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