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August 2010: Fiamma Straneo launches an expendable probe from a helicopter to measure temperature and salinity at the edge of a major East Greenland glacier, Helheim Glacier. Straneo and other scientists have hypothesized that ocean warming has played a role in accelerating
glaciers around Greenland and in doubling Greenland's contribution to sea level rise.
(Photo by Tony Cenicola, New York Times)