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Newly spotted lakes on Greenland ice sheet are speeding up its demise
Satellite sleuthing reveals that Greenland summers now are warm enough to create 27 percent more lakes than 20 years ago, and at higher elevations.
The disintegration of Greenland’s ice sheet is currently the biggest contributor to global sea level rise, and the breakneck pace of its climate change-driven dismemberment doesn’t look set to slow down. It shed 3.8 trillion metric tons of ice between 1992 and 2018, a staggering amount in such a short timeframe. If the entire ice sheet completely melted, sea levels would rise by about 20 feet.
It is, however, a complicated mass of ice, providing scientists with so much information that it has been difficult for them to process and interpret it all.
A new research endeavor takes advantage of cutting-edge technology to generate an unprecedentedly detailed dataset for the glacial titan. Twenty years of shots taken by