A team of researchers from the Norwegian Polar Institute, Uppsala University, Princeton University and California Institute of Technology reports that the rate of glacial melt in a Norwegian archipelago, Svalbard, is speeding up as global warming continues unabated. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the group describes a unique method of measuring glacial melting that produced an estimate of the rate of melting in the future. Twila Moon with the University of Colorado has published a News & Views piece in the same journal issue outlining the work done by the researchers.