The 79°North Glacier on the north-east coast of Greenland (IMAGE)

Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research

The 79°North Glacier on the north-east coast of Greenland

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The 79°North Glacier on the north-east coast of Greenland forms an 80 kilometre long tongue of floating ice. In recent decades, the glacier tongue has hardly become any shorter, but it has become thinner and thinner. (Photo: Rebecca McPherson

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Alfred Wegener Institute / Rebecca McPherson

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