Ice sheets News
Greenland's ice sheet witnessed its biggest melting down of the season as it lost around 11 billion tonnes of surface ice to oceans in a single day, due to the persistent heatwave causing record high temperatures across Europe.
According to researchers, 500 meters by car with a mid-range vehicle will cost one kilogram of glacier ice in the long run.
This year marks IceBridge's eighth spring campaign of science flights over Arctic sea and land.
The water gains over land were spread globally but taken together, they equal the volume of Lake Huron, the world’s seventh largest lake.
Ice shelves are believed to be the floating extensions of the continent's massive land-based ice sheets.
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