Surprising lake bigger than West Virginia inside the Greenland ice

Unlikely liquid water may hold clues to the effects of Global Warming

A vast aquifer lake lies trapped under southeastern Greenland. This discovery may help the scientific community to find reasons for the climate´s changing. The fact that there exists an aquifer 27,000 square miles under the Greenland region is a matter of scientific interest.

Lora Koening of NASA´s Goddard Space Flight Center said it is a magnificent discovery, because even thought water percolates down the surface when the ice melts, the water did not refreeze. Koening and a group of colleges went to Greenland to take core samples, and to prove if there exists life in Greenland´s aquifer.

The fact that melt water can remain in liquid form, provides information about how long it takes the water to get to the sea, and can determine how much and how fast the sea level will rise, which is of vital importance to the communities who live on the coasts.

For more info:http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/01/140102-greenland-ice-sheet-lake-global-warming-science/