A new study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has found that Greenland is melting four times faster than it was just fifteen years ago. Using data from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE), which were two satellites launched by Germany and NASA back in 2002, researchers discovered that between 2002 and 2016, Greenland lost 280 gigatons of ice every year, and that resulted in the addition of .03 inches of water annually to the world’s oceans. "We're...
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