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Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Greenland glacier hits record speed (BBC News)

A river of ice in Greenland has become the fastest-flowing glacier currently known in the world, a study suggests.

In summer, the Jakobshavn Glacier - widely thought to have spawned the iceberg that sank the Titanic - is moving about four times faster than it was in the 1990s.

The Greenland Ice Sheet has seen record melting in recent years and would raise seal levels 6m were it all to vanish.

Details of the research are published in The Cryosphere journal. [Read Full Article]