A host of observations from satellites, aircraft, and scientists on the ground suggests that Greenland’s ice sheet diminished this year at a rate more than twice that seen just a few years ago.
LOSING WEIGHT. In 2005, the Greenland ice sheet, shown here in a new, satellite-generated topographical map, lost ice about twice as fast as it had in previous years.
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