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Science 24 March 2006:
Vol. 311. no. 5768, pp. 1719 - 1720
DOI: 10.1126/science.1124496
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Perspectives

CLIMATE CHANGE:
Greenland Rumbles Louder as Glaciers Accelerate

Ian Joughin

Flow rates of many large glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica have accelerated recently. Greenland earthquakes produced from glacier motion and calving have also increased dramatically.

The author is at the Polar Science Center, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, 1013 NE 40th Street, Seattle, WA 98105, USA. E-mail: ian{at}apl.washington.edu

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