For the first time in recorded history, it rained at Greenland Summit Camp, a research outpost in the island’s (usually) frozen ice shelf. And it wasn’t just a little slush. A torrential downpour containing 7 billion tons of rain washed away a horrifying amount of Greenland’s ice last week inContinue Reading
It is a common knowledge now that the Arctic is melting at an alarming rate thanks to worsening climate change — and spelling bad news for the rest of the planet. According to a new World Meteorological Organization data the amount of ice that melted in Greenland just on thisContinue Reading
The Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) is losing mass at an alarming rate. A new study recently discovered that the rate of melting we’re seeing today is likely to be the highest of the last 12,000 years. The study focused on Greenland because – the melting of ice in this partContinue Reading
