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On the rise

A thinning, accelerating ice stream in Greenland’s interior could contribute nearly 16 millimeters to global sea level rise by 2100, more than six times as much as previously thought, Nikk Ogasa reported in “Greenland is hemorrhaging ice” (SN: 12/17/22 & 12/31/22, p.