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Today World News – There has been a widespread and intense mass loss of glaciers and ice caps in Greenland at a rate that is three times faster than seen in the 20th Century, finds an alarming study.
The research provides critical insights into long-term changes to the country’s glaciers and ice caps because of climate change, which has contributed about one fifth to global sea-level rise in the last decade.
Using historical data, scientists mapped 5,327 glaciers and ice caps that existed at the end of the Little Ice Age in 1900; a period of widespread cooling when average global temperatures dropped by as much as 2 degrees Celsius. They were then able to reveal these fragmented into 5,467 by 2001.
