July 14, 2000
The Great Melt: Is It Normal, or the Result of Global Warming?
Scientists are having difficulty pinpointing the causes of glacial and sea-ice decline
From the gravelly, newborn shores of this frigid lagoon, Iceland's Vatnajokull icecap is breathtaking. The vast dome of snow and ice descends from angry clouds to smother jagged, 3,000-foot-tall mountains. It spills out from the peaks in a steep outlet glacier more than 9 miles wide and 12 miles long -- an insignificant appendage of Europe's largest icecap.
A hundred years ago there was no
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