Ice Melt

Photo: Onu Tareq
World+Biz

Everest's highest glacier rapidly losing ice: study

Carbon dating showed the top layer of ice was around 2,000 years old, suggesting that the glacier was thinning more than 80 times faster than the time it took to form, the study said

The ice sheet atop the world's largest island contains enough frozen water to lift oceans some six metres (20 feet) globally, and extreme melting events there have been increasing in frequency for at least 40 years. Photo: BSS/AFP
Environment

Extreme Greenland ice melt raised global flood risk: study

An iceberg floats in a fjord near Tasiilaq. Greenland is strategically important for the U.S. military and its ballistic missile early-warning system since the shortest route from Europe to North America runs via the Arctic island. The United States maintains an air base in Thule in Greenland's northwest under a 1951 treaty with Denmark. Pictures taken June 2018. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
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Greenland experiences ice melt that could cover Florida in 2 inches of water