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Melting Mystery Solved: Why Ice Sheets Shrink Faster Than They Grow

A study reveals that warming more significantly impacts the firn layer on the Greenland Ice Sheet than cooling, complicating efforts to reverse melting through geoengineering. Scientists have long understood from ice core research that melting an ice sheet is easier than refreezing it. A recent stu

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