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- Report Shows Greenland’s Ice Sheet is Melting from Above AND Below Due to Heat from the Earth’s Mantle Tue, 13 Aug 13, 5:04amGreenland's arctic ice sheet is in trouble - and it turns out that global warming isn't the only force at work. A new study in Nature Geoscience by the GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences shows that high heat flow...
- Surprise: Greenland ice gets a melt assist from Earth’s hot mantle below Tue, 13 Aug 13, 2:05amFrom the Helmholtz Association Greenland ice is melting — also from below Heat flow from the mantle contributes to the ice melt The Greenland ice sheet is melting from below, caused by a high heat flow from the mantle...