BUFFALO, N.Y., July 14 (UPI) -- Glaciers that calve, or break off, into the sea are particularly sensitive to climate change, U.S. researchers say.
Geologists from the University at Buffalo in New York working in Greenland say such large, marine-calving glaciers have the ability not only to shrink rapidly in response to global warming, but to grow at a remarkable pace during periods of global cooling, a university release reported Thursday.