Ice sheet melts rapidly as emissions soar
Nasa has published satellite images showing unprecedented thawing of the Greenland ice sheet during July. Over a period of four days, between 8 and 12 July, the extent of the thawing changed from about 40% of the ice sheet surface to 97%
The satellite pictures revealed that almost the entire ice cover of Greenland, from its thin, low-lying coastal edges to its two-mile-thick centre, experienced some degree of melting at its surface. TContinue reading this with an IEMA membership
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