GREENLAND's Jakobshavn Glacier, which for the past two decades had been retreating, recently began advancing again, and has grown in thickness, a new study from National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) scientists has found.

Jakobshavn, which had been the single largest site of ice loss for the Greenland ice sheet, shifted in 2016, according to the study, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, reported Arctic Today of Anchorage.



The researchers, from NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland project, attribute that shift to locally cooler ocean waters - tied to a natural cycle in the North Atlantic, explains National Geographic.


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