Climate change: Greenland Ice Sheet is shrinking at high rate
Thursday, December 17, 2015 - 07:50
in Earth & Climate
The Greenland Ice Sheet has lost about 9,013 gigatonnes of water ice from 1900 to 2010 – and it’s dropping mass today at an increasing rate, an international team of scientists say. From 2003 to 2010, the ice sheet lost mass at a rate more than twice the rate during the entire 20th century, a new...