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NASA Satellite Data Help Pinpoint Glaciers’ Role in Sea Level Rise

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–May 17, 2013.  A new study of glaciers worldwide using observations from two NASA satellites has helped resolve differences in estimates of how fast glaciers are disappearing and contributing to sea level rise.

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The new research found glaciers outside of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, repositories of 1 percent of all land ice, lost an average of 571 trillion pounds (259 trillion kilograms) of mass every year during the six-year study period, making the…

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