A glacier that was once Greenland’s fastest melting is growing again — for now

Researchers say the surprising shift — due to cooler ocean waters — is only temporary.

By Krestia DeGeorge March 27, 2019
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Greenland’s Jakobshavn Glacier, which for the past two decades had been rapidly thinning and retreating, recently began advancing again, and has grown in thickness, a new study from NASA scientists has found.

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