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Scientists Say Greenland Just Opened Up A Major New ‘Floodgate’ Of Ice Into The Ocean

The Zachariae glacier. Source: USGS/NASA Landsat taken on August, 30 2014 : LC80472412014242LGN00 (path : 047, row : 241)

Source: Washington Post (article by Chris Mooney) As the world prepares for the most important global climate summit yet in Paris later this month, news from Greenland could add urgency to the negotiations. For another major glacier appears to have begun a rapid retreat into a deep underwater basin, a troubling sign previously noticed at Greenland’s Jakobshavn […]

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