Melting Greenland Growing Darker

Press/Media: Public Engagement

Period20 Aug 2012

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  • TitleMelting Greenland Growing Darker
    Degree of recognitionInternational
    Media name/outletScience magazine
    Media typeWeb
    Duration/Length/Size1 pag
    Date20/08/12
    DescriptionLast month, an unusually warm weather system swept across Greenland, triggering a widespread melting of surface ice and snow that typically occurs only once in a lifetime. Such extensive melting is exceedingly rare, but it could exacerbate a trend noted in a new study: Since 2000, increasing amounts of surface melting have been darkening the lower-elevation portions of Greenland’s ice sheet, setting the stage for more frequent melting in the future.
    Producer/AuthorSid Perkins
    URLwww.sciencemag.org/news/2012/08/melting-greenland-growing-darker
    PersonsS.L.M. Lhermitte