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Posted by Charlotte Ramotswe, November 30th, 2008 - under News.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change
After years of decline, glaciers in Norway are again growing, reports the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE). Read more here.
The Norwegían study here:
http://www.forskning.no/artikler/2008/november/202047 ( in Norwegian).
This is not my area , and it’s a little bit difficult to translate to English , but roughly it states . ” …some glaciers have increased in height , due to precipitation, but the ” glacier arms” ( dunno how a correct English word is) have decreased….