Friday, August 11th, 2006

Greenland melt ’speeding up’

So long, Florida!

The meltdown of Greenland’s ice sheet is speeding up, satellite measurements show.

Data from a US space agency (Nasa) satellite show that the melting rate has accelerated since 2004.

If the ice cap were to completely disappear, global sea levels would rise by 6.5m (21 feet) BBC

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Posted at 18:05 ET on August 11th, 2006. Filed under "Bush administration| Environmental"

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