Can glaciers recover? (VIDEO)

Stockholm University

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Ice shelves are floating extensions of glaciers. If Greenland’s second largest ice shelf breaks up, it may not recover unless Earth’s future climate cools considerably. This is the result of a new study, published in Nature Communications.

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Martin Jakobsson/Stockholm University

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