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2 Trillion Tons of Ice Gone Since 2003

More than 2 trillion tons of land ice in Greenland, Alaska and Antarctica have been lost since 2003 due to melting, according to new NASA satellite data. It’s the latest round of evidence of the toll global warming is taking around the world, and scientists say this is just the beginning.
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Rubber Ducks Deployed in Attempt to Track Melting Glacier

What was a rocket scientist’s solution to help figure out what’s happening inside the fastest-moving Greenland glacier? An army of rubber ducks.  It sounds like a joke, but a U.S. rocket scientist really did send 90 rubber ducks into the ice in the hopes that someone will find them if they emerge in Baffin Bay.
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