Greenland and Antarctica Have Lost 12.5 Trillion Tons of Ice over 40 Years
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Greenland and Antarctica have lost 12.5 trillion tons of ice since 1979, raising ocean levels by 3.2 centimeters.
LONDON: The ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica have reportedly shrunk by 11.3 trillion tonnes over the past 50 years, contributing to a rise in global sea levels of more than 3 centimetres (cm), according to new research. An international team of polar scientists has produced the most complete picture yet of the rate of ice loss from the world's two largest ice sheets ...
Data from 27 satellites show how Greenland and Antarctica lose trillion tons of ice and add about 3.1 centimeters to the global sea level.
In this new study entitled “Mass balance of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets from the 1970s to 2023” which was published in Scientific Data magazine, a group of scientists detail how since 1979, about 11.3 trillion metric tons of ice have melted from glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica
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