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Iceland's vanishing ice
2013-12-18 14:38:02| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Climate: A fierce wind shrieks down the glacier slope, flinging ice and grit like a weather-witch from an old Icelandic saga. The 300-some glaciers that cover more than 10 percent of Iceland are losing about 11 billion tons of ice a year. The glacier, Solheimajokull, a tongue of ice reaching toward Iceland's southeast coast, has become an apologue of climate change in recent years: Retreating an average of one Olympic pool-length every year for the past two decades due to climbing temperatures, warming...
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