[ad_1] New research has found that water beneath glaciers in Antarctica and Greenland flows into nearby oceans, carrying elements that could affect how life grows and thrives. The study, published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that subglacial lakes in Antarctica and streams emerging from …
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[ad_1] University of Hawaiʻi Aerial image of subsidence and crevasses on the Vatnajókull ice sheet on the western Skaftákatlar subglacial lake. (Photo credit: Benedikt Gunnar Ófeigsson, Icelandic Meteorological Office) A long-standing mystery involving floods or “jökulhlaup” emerging suddenly and unpredictably from glaciers or ice caps was fortuitously solved by a …
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