Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Warming ocean melts Greenland glaciers

Curry and her colleagues from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts zigzagged between majestic icebergs in the Sermilik fjord last month in search of proof that waters from warmer latitudes, or subtropical waters, are flushing through this remote and frigid region.

They found it — all the way up to the base of the outlet glaciers that spill into the ocean like tongues of ice from Greenland's massive ice sheet.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090923/ap_on_re_eu/eu_climate_09_greenland_warming_ocean

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