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Rebecca Ann Hughes

The Arctic’s glaciers are retreating, exposing new coastlines that could trigger tsunamis

Shrinking glaciers exposed 2,500 kilometres of coastline and 35 ‘new’ islands in the Arctic between 2000 and 2020, new research has found. 

Scientists examined satellite images of more than 1,700 ice caps in Greenland, Alaska, the Canadian Arctic, the Russian Arctic, Iceland and Svalbard over this 20-year period.

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