Researchers: Northeast Greenland Ice Loss Accelerating

Open water in northeast Greenland, where ice loss is accelerating. Photo by Finn Bo Madsen, courtesy of The Ohio State University.

All margins of ice sheet now unstable—and contributing to sea level rise

osu.edu - March 17, 2014

COLUMBUS, Ohio—An international team of scientists has discovered that the last remaining stable portion of the Greenland ice sheet is stable no more.

The finding, which will likely boost estimates of expected global sea level rise in the future, appears in the March 16 issue of the journal Nature Climate Change [DOI:10.1038/NCLIMATE2161].

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