Greenland’s Glaciers Melting: New Photos Reveal Drastic Changes
Thousands of Greenland's glaciers are rapidly shrinking, according to a new study. The study found that the glaciers have lost an average of 250 cubic kilometers of ice per year since the early 1990s. This is enough to raise global sea levels by 0.7 millimeters per year.
Greenland's glaciers are quickly melting and getting smaller, and old pictures show the big changes. When climate scientist Laura Larocca visited Denmark in 2019, she found old aerial photos of Greenland's icy coast. These photos, found in a castle 15 years ago and now in the Danish National Archives, inspired Larocca and her team to study how the glaciers have changed with the warming climate.
By digitizing old paper photos from the 1930s and combining them with today's satellite images, Larocca's team discovered t...