Ice and Stone (IMAGE)

Columbia Climate School

Ice and Stone

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Melting on the surface of the Greenland ice sheet, June 2016. A newly funded project will penetrate the ice to the bedrock below, promising to give scientists a new understanding of the sheet's past and future.

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Jess Allen/NASA Earth Observatory

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