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Sunshine and Clear Summer Skies Are Melting the Greenland Ice Sheet (1 of 6)

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Sunshine and Clear Summer Skies Are Melting the Greenland Ice Sheet (1 of 6)

image: Enjoying the late-summer sunset after a hard day of fieldwork on the Greenland ice sheet, mid-August 2016. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the June 28, 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by S. Hoferat University of Bristol in Bristol, UK, and colleagues was titled, 'Decreasing cloud cover drives the recent mass loss on the Greenland ice sheet.' view more 

Credit: [Credit: Black and Bloom (@Glacier_Albedo), Andrew Tedstone]


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