2019-05-14
Researchers with NASA's Operation IceBridge aerial polar ice survey have discovered the presence of large meltwater pools and raging rivers across the surface of a number of Greenland's major glaciers, a "concerning" development due to the early melt of Arctic ice in the season. Typically, this level of ice melt doesn't begin to occur until late May or early June, but the accelerated rate of warming in the Arctic is causing the ice to melt earlier in the year.
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