Barnes Ice Cap (IMAGE)

University of Colorado at Boulder

Barnes Ice Cap

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CU Boulder Professor Gifford Miller, shown here, is part of a team that has found the Barnes Ice Cap on Baffin Island, the last remnant of the Laurentide Ice Sheet, will vanish in several hundred years because of rising temperatures caused by human activity.

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Gifford Miller, University of Colorado

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