Arctic Greenland is heating up! Greenland lost 6 billion tons of ice in one day! Worrying!
The Greenland Ice Sheet is the second largest ice sheet in the world, covering an area of nearly 1.8 million square kilometers, second only to the Antarctic Ice Sheet, with average annual temperatures below 0 degrees Celsius. Recently, there have been extreme heat in many parts of the world, and most of greenland, which is located within the Arctic Circle, has reached a staggering temperature of about 15 degrees Celsius, which directly leads to the glaciers of Greenland also melting at a very fast rate.
According to the U.S. Ice and Snow Data Study, the Greenland ice sheet melted about 6 billion tons of ice per day from the 15th to the 17th of this month, which is enough to fill 7.2 million Olympic standard swimming pools. Scientists fear that a record melt like 2019's will happen again — after all, it caused global sea levels to rise permanently by 1.5 millimeters. Greenland has enough ice, and if Greenland's ice does melt all that day, it will raise global sea levels by 7.5 meters.
