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Their study, published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, investigates the link between this transfer of meltwater to the bottom of the ice and rising global sea levels. Greenland has the world's second-largest ice sheet, and is the single largest contributor to global sea-level rise, the study said. | Their study, published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, investigates the link between this transfer of meltwater to the bottom of the ice and rising global sea levels. Greenland has the world's second-largest ice sheet, and is the single largest contributor to global sea-level rise, the study said. | ||
"Before this study, we already knew that many lakes drain and that fractures may be important in the lake drainage process, but the formation of fractures in terms of 'where', 'when' and 'how' has not been studied before, at least not with the resolution and details featured in our work," one of the researchers, Poul Christoffersen, from Cambridge's Scott Polar Research Institute, who led the research told CNN via e-mail. | "Before this study, we already knew that many lakes drain and that fractures may be important in the lake drainage process, but the formation of fractures in terms of 'where', 'when' and 'how' has not been studied before, at least not with the resolution and details featured in our work," one of the researchers, Poul Christoffersen, from Cambridge's Scott Polar Research Institute, who led the research told CNN via e-mail. | ||
=====What’s Driving Antarctica's Meltdown?===== | =====What’s Driving Antarctica's Meltdown?===== | ||
