Glacier Might Endanger Shipping
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The world’s fastest-moving glacier, the Columbia Glacier in Alaska, is speeding up and might endanger shipping as it spawns more icebergs, researchers said. They said the glacier, near Anchorage, had increased from 80 feet to 115 feet a day. It might endanger shipping if it starts “calving” more chunks of ice.
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