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Data sheds light on speed of Greenland's glaciers
Source: BBC
4 May 2012 Last updated at 11:20 GMT
Data sheds light on speed of Greenland's glaciers
By Mark Kinver Environment reporter, BBC News
Greenland's glaciers are not speeding up as much as previously thought, researchers have estimated.
As a result, the ice rivers may be contributing "significantly less" to sea-level rise than had been thought.
Previous studies had estimated that the nation's glaciers would double their flow by 2010 and continue to maintain that speed, they explained.
But the team, writing in Science, said the glaciers could eventually flow faster than earlier studies estimated.
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Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17952317