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Greenland: a glacier melts in one night

In a single night - between 6 and July 7 - 7 square miles of Greenland's Jakobshavn glacier (the equivalent of the eighth part of the island of Manhattan in New York) have begun to separate from the terminal language, ending in the sea. This has led a sudden withdrawal of the glacier about a mile . The Jakobshavn Glacier
Isbrae is located on the west coast of Greenland, and declined by more than 45 km in the last 160 years, only 10 km in the last ten years.

The phenomenon was discovered by researchers at the Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State University, through the use of satellites that control the evolution of glaciers. A strike scientists is that what happened this time was done after a warm winter that did not allow for adding new parts to the glacier most likely come off during the summer. The glacier ended in the sea so completely belongs to the language that descends from the continent.
Meanwhile in the night between 12 and 13 July another huge crack opened up to a few hundred meters from the new border with the sea. This suggests that soon another piece of ice broke away to finish in the ocean.




As the glacier retreated, it was divided into two parts this week and the gap is produced the north branch.




More than ten percent of all icebergs that are lost in Greenland come from Jakobshavn Glacier: is considered the largest contributor in the increase of sea level in the northern hemisphere