Two new NASA studies show that the central portion of Greenland’s ice sheet isn’t, on the whole, getting any thinner. However, one of the investigations finds substantial thinning along most margins of the ice sheet—changes that are contributing to rising sea levels.
The thick bars bordering Greenland’s 1-million-square-kilometer central ice sheet show the relative magnitude and direction of ice flow.
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