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Greenland Ice Sheet Still Losing Mass

09-29-2006 · ScienceDaily

Data gathered by a pair of NASA satellites orbiting Earth show Greenland continued to lose ice mass at a significant rate through April 2006, and that the rate of loss is accelerating, according to a new University of Colorado at Boulder study.

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