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Harsh climate: The struggle to track global sea level rise
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Harsh climate: The struggle to track global sea level rise

A loud rumble jolted climate scientist David Holland just before he went to slee...
Harsh climate: The struggle to track global sea level rise

Harsh climate: The struggle to track global sea level rise

The best predictions for sea-level rise this century are getting more dire, and yet less precise, in part because of a lack of understanding of these glaciers and how their behavior fits into global climate modeling.

Greenland and the hunt for better climate science

Greenland and the hunt for better climate science

In June, an iceberg four miles wide broke away from Greenland's Helheim Glacier and cracked into pieces in a process called calving, an event that can be caused by warming oceans. Scientists worry that calving will happen on a disastrous scale in Antarctica, where the much larger Thwaites glacier, for instance, is believed to be a linchpin holding back the West Antarctic ice sheet.

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