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Measuring the Polar Meltdown

By David Talbot

Tourists scramble over the melting edge of Greenland's ice sheet near the town of Kangerlussuaq. The rate at which some glaciers are sliding into the ocean has doubled or more in a decade, outpacing estimates that inform official predictions of sea-level rise.