Greenland has lost enough ice since 2002 to submerge the US under 1.5 feet of water
Author: Ian Randall
The finding comes from a Danish analysis of data from the Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites collected from April 2002–August 2021. Greenland's ice sheet has lost a whopping 4,700 gigatons of ice over the last two decades, a study has warned - enough to submerge the US under 1.5 feet of water. Data shows that most of the loss of ice occurs along the edge of the ice sheet,' the researchers wrote on their website. At the edges, they explained, 'independent observations also indicate that the ice is thinning, that the glacier fronts are retreating in fjords and on land, and that there is a greater degree of melting from the surface of the ice. The loss of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are among the primary drivers of the sea-level rise being triggered by climate change, NASA have said.