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Where icebergs are born

Chile's Grey Glacier is blue due to absorbed red light and reflected blue light.

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Where icebergs are born

Chile's Grey Glacier appears blue due to ice's absorption of red light, while blues are reflected.

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Where icebergs are born

Chile's Grey Glacier, a blue glacier due to absorbed red light, is melting at alarming rates, having retreated over a mile since the 1980s.

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The growing glacier

A glacier towers 240ft above Argentino Lake, stretching 3 miles long.

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