03-18-2024
Greenland's Petermann Glacier melting rate has tripled due to warm ocean waterA colossal river of ice, Greenland's Petermann Glacier, is disintegrating with shocking speed. Since the early 2000s, its melting rate has tripled. Rising tides threaten to inundate coastal cities and displace millions worldwide. Researchers from the University of California, Irvine (UCI), and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have pinpointed the intrusion of warm ocean water beneath the glacier as a key factor. Shifting with the tides Scientists were initially baffled by how quickly Petermann Glacier was losing ice. That's when they made a remarkable discovery: the glacier...
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