Earth Sciences Assistant Professor Ian Howat is the author of a new study appearing in the current issue of the journal, Geophysical Research Letters, refining the way scientists measure ice loss in Greenland. It is providing a “high-definition picture” of climate-caused changes on the island.

And the picture isn’t pretty.

In the last decade, two of the largest three glaciers draining that frozen landscape have lost enough ice that, if melted, could have filled Lake Erie.

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