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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Tom Wilkinson

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Greenland ice sheet cracking open quicker than before say scientists - The Untold Story

Experts measures the crevasses on the Greenland Ice Sheet (Tom Chudley/PA) -

The world’s second largest body of ice – the Greenland Ice Sheet – is cracking open quicker than previously, scientists have warned.

Using 3-D maps of its surface, researchers have found crevasses have got significantly wider and deeper at the sheet’s fast-flowing edges between 2016 and 2021.

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