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The race to save a glacier shedding 30 billion tons of ice a year
Every year in the remote reaches of Greenland, between 30 and 50 billion tons of ice breaks off the Jakobshavn Glacier and plunges into the sea. The largest icebergs can be a kilometre in height ...
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Retreat of Northern Hemisphere Marine-Terminating Glaciers, 2000–2020 (IMAGE)
Jakobshavn Glacier, Greenland, has rapidly retreated over the past 20 years, producing large numbers of icebergs that are seen here outside of Ilulissat, Greenland, in June 2015. Retreat of ...