It is the dominant contributor to our favorable trade balance, it is the largest private - sector investor in the national economy, and it accounts for about one - quarter of all tangible national wealth. (canadianbusiness.com)
If the trend continues, ice sheets could become the dominant contributor to sea level rise sooner than scientists had predicted, concludes the research, which will be published this month in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. (scientificamerican.com)
«The traditional view of the loss of land ice on Earth has been that mountain glaciers and ice caps are the dominant contributors, and ice sheets are following behind,» said study co-author Eric Rignot, a glaciologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the University of California, Irvine. (scientificamerican.com)