Increased melting in the warmer summer is causing
the internal drainage system of the ice sheet to accommodate more melt - water, without speeding up the flow of ice toward the oceans, the journal Nature reports.
She met that goal in 2010, when she was awarded a patent for her «dumpling planter,» a pouch made of rubber waterproofing membrane, with
an internal drainage system, that cinches looser or tighter at the top as needed around a plant or a tree and has the pleasing appearance of a dumpling.
Tags: acceleration, climate change, daily mail, daily telegraph,
drainage system, geographer, global warming, greenland ice sheet, himalayan glacier, himalayan glaciers, hot summer,
internal drainage, jan 28, journal nature, karakoram range, london jan, oceans, range of mountains, sea levels, university of potsdam