Denmark to Set Up Ice Cap Stations

June 24, 2006

(AP) -- Denmark is to set up seven unmanned measuring stations along the edge of Greenland's vast ice cap, to monitor how fast the frozen sheet covering the massive island is thinning, Environment Minister Connie Hedegaard announced Friday.

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