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Engineering firms explore plan to slow melting of Greenland glacier

Companies are considering a major geoengineering project that would build a barrier to block warm seawater from reaching the base of Jakobshavn glacier in Greenland

By Rowan Hooper

21 October 2022

Satellite image of Jakobshavn glacier, — Satellite image of Jakobshavn glacier, Greenland, in 2019
NASA Earth Observatory/Joshua Stevens/U.S. Geological Survey

Major engineering companies are looking at plans to slow the melting of a gigantic Greenland glacier, in what would be the first large-scale intervention to preserve ice anywhere in the world. If it goes ahead, and if it works, it could suggest a way to slow sea level rise from Antarctic melt, too.

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