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90 Billion Liters of Water Punched Through Greenland's Ice Sheet – And Nobody Noticed


A build-up of meltwater under the Greenland ice sheet in 2014 resulted in a flood of such magnitude that it burst upward through tens of meters of solid ice, fracturing the surface and spilling water to the open air.

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