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Science 24 March 2006:
Vol. 311. no. 5768, pp. 1720 - 1721
DOI: 10.1126/science.1125226
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Perspectives

CLIMATE CHANGE:
Hitting the Ice Sheets Where It Hurts

Robert Bindschadler

In both hemispheres, glacier discharge to the sea has increased markedly in recent years as warm water from intermediate depths is melting the floating ends of glaciers from below, accelerating them.

The author is at the Hydrospheric and Biospheric Science Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA. E-mail: robert.a.bindschadler{at}nasa.gov

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