Greenland Lost an Unprecedented Amount of Ice in 2019, Study Finds

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By Jordan DavidsonAug 21, 2020, 9:47 am249 pts
The records of Greenland's ice melt date back to 1948 and nothing in that record compares to what happened in 2019. The amount of ice lost was more than double what it has been any year since 2013. The net ice loss in 2019 clocked in at more than 530 billion metric tons for 2019. To put that in context, that's…

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