The study found that Greenland’s ice sheet lost an average of 200 gigatons of ice per year, and Antarctica’s ice sheet lost an average of 118 gigatons of ice per year.
NASA Space Laser Missions Map 16 Years of Ice Sheet Loss
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Some of the Latest Climate Models Provide Unrealistically High Projections of Future Warming
A new study from University of Michigan climate researchers concludes that some of the latest-generation climate models may be overly sensitive to carbon dioxide increases and therefore project future warming that is unrealistically high.
Scientists Find Highest Ever Level of Microplastics on Seafloor
An international research project has revealed the highest levels of microplastic ever recorded on the seafloor, with up to 1.9 million pieces in a thin layer covering just one square metre.
Irrigation Expansion Could Feed 800 Million More People
Water scarcity, a socio-environmental threat to anthropogenic activities and ecosystems alike, affects large regions of the globe.
Smoking May Explain Why More Men Than Women Die of COVID-19 in Spain
Whether or not you are a smoker could condition how the coronavirus affects you.
How Catastrophic Outburst Floods May Have Carved Greenland’s ‘Grand Canyon’
Modeling offers testable hypotheses to probe the earliest days of Greenland’s Ice Sheet
