released, e.g. by World Glacier Monitoring Service in Zürich and Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) in Flagstaff, Arizona.
Bird's eye view
Snæfellsjökull, western Iceland, 18 October 2001. At that time, the ice-cap had already been observed to retreat and thin in the preceding years and decades, as confirmed by annual measurements in a
single location since 1931. This was further
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