Icelandic Ice Cap Gains Mass for First Time in Two Decades, Researchers Say

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By Yale Environment 360Nov 18, 2015, 12:00 pm152 pts
An Icelandic ice cap known as Hofsjökull, shown in this NASA satellite image, has gained mass for the first time since 1993, Enlarge Iceland's Hofsjökull ice cap according to measurements taken last month. All ice caps in Iceland had been retreating rapidly and losing volume since 1995, due to decreasing…

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