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Climate change: Losing Greenland

Is the Arctic's biggest ice sheet in irreversible meltdown? And would we know if it were? Alexandra Witze reports.

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See Editorial, page 781 . For a video of a camera being dropped down a moulin on the Greenland ice sheet, see http://tinyurl.com/5dua42 .

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Witze, A. Climate change: Losing Greenland. Nature 452, 798–802 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/452798a

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