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Tracking down a melting glacier [1]

By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - To help figure out what's happening inside the fastest-moving Greenland glacier, a U.S. rocket scientist sent 90 rubber ducks into the ice, hoping someone finds them if they emerge in Baffin Bay.

Publication Date: 
22/09/2008
Hindu (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Climate Impacts [3], Glacial Melt [4], Greenland [5]
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