Denmark | 600B tons of ice lost from Greenland last summer

Greenland lost 600 billion tons of ice last summer due to an exceptionally warm season, according to a study released Wednesday.

Last summer’s ice loss in Greenland is enough to raise global sea levels by nearly a 10th of an inch — or 2.2 millimeters — in two months, based on a study by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the University of California, Irvine.

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/488297-nasa-data-reveals-greenland-lost-600-billion-tons-of-ice-last

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