Glacier with meltwater fall and blue ice Svalbard, Arctic. Caption and Image source: ©© Peter Prokosch / UNEP
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A glacier in northeast Greenland that holds enough water to raise global sea levels by more than 18 inches (50 cms) has come unmoored from a stabilizing sill and is crumbling into the North Atlantic Ocean. Losing mass at a rate of 5 billion tons per year, glacier Zachariae Isstrom entered a phase of accelerated retreat in 2012.
