Scientists reveal how Greenland Ice Sheet has shrunk over past four decades
London, US Reuters The Greenland Ice Sheet lost 5,091 square kilometres of area between 1985 and 2022, according to a study in the journal Nature published on Wednesday, the first full ice-sheet wide estimate of area loss on that scale. This shrinkage reflected the 1,034 gigatonnes (1.034 trillion kilograms) of ice that have been lost […]
Data collection challenges: Climate change thaws world’s northernmost research station
GLORIA DICKIE and LISI NIESNER, of Reuters, report on the difficulties facing scientists on Norway’s Svalbard archipelago…
World’s glaciers contain less ice than thought – report
London, UKReuters Advances in satellite technology have revealed that the world’s glaciers contain significantly less ice than previously thought, according to a study published in Nature Geoscience on Monday. The revised estimate reduces global sea level rise by three inches if all glaciers were to melt. But it raises concern for some communities that rely […]
“Canary in the coal mine”: Greenland ice has shrunk beyond return, study finds
Reuters Greenland’s ice sheet may have shrunk past the point of return, with the ice likely to melt away no matter how quickly the world reduces climate-warming emissions, new research suggests. Scientists studied data on 234 glaciers across the Arctic territory spanning 34 years through 2018 and found that annual snowfall was no longer enough […]