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Researchers find warm ocean water, exacerbated by warmer air, is causing rapid melt of one of Greenland’s largest glaciers

An unprecedented window opens into a lake buried beneath the Antarctic ice sheet

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Researchers find warm ocean water, exacerbated by warmer air, is causing rapid melt of one of Greenland’s largest glaciers

An unprecedented window opens into a lake buried beneath the Antarctic ice sheet

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