Greenland’s ice sheet is melting at an alarming rate – seven times faster than in the 1990s.
A new analysis of satellite data shows it is losing about 250 billion tonnes of ice every year.
And the losses are continuing to accelerate.
Since 1992, meltwater from Greenland has raised global sea levels by 1 centimetre (0.4 inches).
That puts millions of people at risk from flooding.
Andrew Shepherd, a professor of earth observation at the University of Leeds who was the lead author of that study, talks to Al Jazeera about it.
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