Migrating 'supraglacial' lakes could trigger future Greenland ice loss
Leeds, UK (SPX) Dec 19, 2014 - Predictions of Greenland ice loss and its impact on rising sea levels may have been greatly underestimated, according to scientists at the University of Leeds. The finding follows a new study, which is published in Nature Climate Change, in which the future distribution of lakes that form on the ice sheet surface from melted snow and ice - called supraglacial lakes - have been simulated fo ... more

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