[ad_1] Greenland is the largest island in the world and on it lies the largest mass of ice in the Northern Hemisphere. If all that ice melted, the sea would rise over 7 meters. But it won’t happen, will it? Well, not very soon, but figuring out how much of …
Read More »Larger Greenland Glaciers Probably Melt Faster Than We Thought – Study
[ad_1] Greenland is known as the major contributor to sea level rise. However, a recent report investigates how it could lose more ice to the island’s glaciers than traditionally predicted. According to a report published Tuesday in Nature, Greenland’s three major glaciers are responsible for about 12% of the global …
Read More »The shape of Greenland’s coastline is changing rapidly as it loses record ice levels
[ad_1] The rapid melting is reshaping the coast of Greenland, potentially altering the human and animal ecosystems along the country’s coast. New research published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface on October 27 he discovers that the retreat of Greenland’s ice has changed the way glaciers flow and where …
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