Data show Greenland's ice shelves have lost more than a third of their volume since 1978

Greenland's rapidly melting ice shelves risk 'dramatic' sea level rise: Study

The floating ice shelves are natural barriers that stop the glaciers from dumping more ice into the oceans. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Greenland’s Ice Shelves Hold Back Sea Level Rise. There Are Just 5 Left.

The vast floating ice platforms of northern Greenland, unrivaled features of the northern hemisphere that keep our seas lower by holding back many trillion tons of ice, are in stark decline, according to new scientific research published Tuesday.

Greenland's rapidly melting ice shelves risk 'dramatic' sea level rise: study

The last remaining Northern Greenland ice shelves bracing the region's vast ice sheet have lost a third of their volume in the last four decades, researchers said on Tuesday, warning of the risk of 'dramatic' sea level rise.

Greenland’s ice shelves hold back sea level rise. There are just 5 left

Losses of ice from Greenland have caused about 17 percent of observed sea level rise between the years 2006 and 2018, and if the remaining five collapse, the northern hemisphere will have lost all its shelves.

Greenland’s rapidly melting ice shelves risk ‘dramatic’ sea level rise

PARIS — The last remaining Northern Greenland ice shelves bracing the region’s vast ice sheet have lost a third of their volume in the last four decades, researchers said on Tuesday, warning of the risk of “dramatic” sea level rise.  The floating shelves play a crucial role in regulating the flow of ice into the ocean from glaciers hosting enough ice to ultimately raise sea levels by 2.1 metres.  These ice shelves have lost more than 35 per cent…

Melting Greenland glaciers threaten 'dramatic' sea level rise, study warns

At the top of the world, northern Greenland's huge glaciers — long thought to be relatively stable — are in trouble, a new study shows.As the ocean warms, Greenland's last remaining ice shelves are rapidly weakening, destabilising the nearby glaciers and threatening potentially "dramatic" consequences for sea level rise, according to the study published today in Nature Communications.Ice shelves are tongues of floating ice that jut out over the …