Shrinking Ice (IMAGE)

Columbia Climate School

Shrinking Ice

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A newly forming lake at the edge of the Greenland ice sheet, exposing sediments released by the ice. Such lake beds are becoming common as the ice recedes.

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Kevin Krajick/Earth Institute

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