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Rate of ice loss from Greenland has grown by a factor of six since the 1980s, scientists find
By Chris Mooney & Brady Dennis
How Much Ice Has Greenland Lost to Climate Change?
By Robinson Meyer
Greenland's Ice Sheet Was Growing in the '70s. Now It Loses Trillions of Pounds Every Year
By Rafi Letzter
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Formerly TwitterZack Labe
ZLabe
March 2024 data is now available from GIOMAS for both Antarctic sea-ice thickness/volume (zacklabe.com/antarctic-sea-ice-extentconcentration/) and global sea-ice volume (zacklabe.com/global-sea-ice-extent-conc/).
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Zack Labe
ZLabe
Trends in April #Arctic sea ice thickness over approximately the last four decades. Areas in red correspond to thinning ice...
[Simulated data from PIOMAS. For more information: doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0436.1] pic.twitter.com/gQtfq9MwcP
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National Snow and Ice Data Center
NSIDC
Daily monitoring of the Greenland Ice Sheet is back! Find these two maps on our Ice Sheets Today page: the Greenland daily melt map and the Greenland cumulative melt days map. Analyses about conditions on the Greenland Ice Sheet will return soon as well. nsidc.org/ice-sheets-today pic.twitter.com/Yeq7IsUhFP
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National Snow and Ice Data Center
NSIDC
There are 2 broad categories of glaciers: alpine glaciers and ice sheets. Alpine glaciers are frozen rivers of ice, slowly flowing under their own weight down mountainsides and into valleys. Ice sheets cover entire continents. nsidc.org/learn/parts-cryosphere/glaciers
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