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Published online 1 November 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news011101-13
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Thinning of the ice sheet in northwest Greenland over the past forty years
Half a century of thinning ice leaves Greenland's future looking wet.
There is new evidence that the Greenland ice pack is in retreat. The finding may be a foretaste of still more rapid melting, and in turn, rising sea levels.
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