Scientists recently found that Greenland’s central ice sheet isn’t getting any thinner overall, although particular areas show significant gains or losses (SN: 7/22/00, p. 54: Available to subscribers at Greenland’s ice is thinner at the margins). Other researchers report in the Aug. 24 Nature that these changes are no larger than those that have occurred during the past 4 centuries.
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