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Home Environment Environmental Issues

Shorties: Greenland ice loss continues to accelerate

Mihai Andrei by Mihai Andrei
October 11, 2011
in Environmental Issues, World Problems
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The latest measurements in Greenland pretty much confirm researchers’ worst fears: Greenland is not only continuing to lose ice, but the loss is accelerating even more.

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The average ice mass loss from Greenland over 2002 to 2011 is (drum rolls…) 225 billion tonnes per year; furthermore, the rate of mass loss has increased significantly and there was an unusually large amount of snow and ice lost in 2010.

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