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Significant Contribution of Greenland's Peripheral Glaciers to Sea-Level Rise
2013-03-18 20:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Glaciers at the edge of Greenland which are not connected to its huge ice sheet, or can be clearly separated from it, are contributing to sea-level rise much more than previously thought. Scientists from the University of Zurich together with colleagues from Denmark have found that, though these peripheral glaciers make up just 5-7 % of total ice coverage on the land mass, they account for up to 20% of the rise in sea level created by the region's melting. The scientists looked at glaciers which...
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