A large and fast-melting glacier
in Greenland is growing again,
according to a new NASA study.
The Jakobshavn
(YA-cob-shawv-en)
glacier on Greenland's
west coast had been retreating
by around 1.8 miles and thinning
by nearly 130 feet annually in 2012.
According to a recent study
published in the peer-reviewed
Nature Geoscience, the glacier
began growing at about the
same rate over the past two years.
The authors of the study
swear it's temporary,
but don't know that.
"At first we didn't believe it,"
said lead author Ala Khazendar
who works at NASA's
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
"We had pretty much assumed
that Jakobshavn would just
keep going on as it had
over the last 20 years."