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January 29, 2008

An iceberg calved from a glacier floats in the Jacobshavn fjord in southwest Greenland.

An iceberg calved from a glacier floats in the Jacobshavn fjord in southwest Greenland. A Colorado University-Boulder study indicates Greenland continues to lose ice mass and the rate of loss is accelerating.

Credit: Konrad Steffen, CIRES/University of Colorado at Boulder


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