It took almost a month for meltwater to accumulate atop Greenland’s ice sheet in the summer of 2006. It took only
90 minutes for all that water — a lake so large it could fill New Orleans’ Superdome more than 12 times
over — to pour through a crack in the kilometer-thick ice below it and drain
the lake dry.
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