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Greenland’s frozen hinterlands are bleeding worse than we thought

Estimates of global sea level rise from large ice flows might be much too low

An aerial photo of the Nioghalvfjerdsfjord glacier

The Nioghalvfjerdsfjord glacier (pictured) is one outlet of the roughly 600-kilometer-long Northeast Greenland Ice Stream, which drains ice from the country’s massive ice sheet into the sea.

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By Nikk Ogasa

Sea level rise may proceed faster than expected in the coming decades, as a gargantuan flow of ice slithering out of Greenland’s remote interior both picks up speed and shrinks.