Melting rate icecaps Greenland and Western Antarctica lower than expected

Monday, September 6, 2010 - 12:00 in Earth & Climate

The Greenland and West Antarctic ice caps are melting at half the speed previously predicted. This finding has emerged from research by a joint US/Dutch team from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft, The Netherlands) and SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research. The scientists have published their findings in the September issue of Nature Geoscience...

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