Huge flood cracked crater in Greenland’s ice shield

Due to the global warming, the Greenland ice shield thaws. The meltwater usually flows into the sea. Sometimes it can also develop destructive power, as a study now reveals. Satellite data show that in 2014 a melting water lake with such force was pressing up under the ice layer that the ice shield dismantled

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