Greenland’s melting ice sheet
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A 110-square-km slab of ice has broken off the Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden
Glacier in Greenland. In 2019 Greenland lost a record 532 billion tonnes of ice, more than double the average loss since 2003
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Aug 2020: Chunk of ice – larger than city of Paris – breaks off from Arctic’s largest ice shelf. Glacier N79 is floating front edge of Northeast Greenland Ice Stream

Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden Glacier (N79)
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Arctic Ocean 
Melting ice
Baffin Bay
Northeast Greenland Ice Stream
GREENLAND
Atlantic Ocean

400km  250 miles 
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% 40 30 20 10 0
Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep

Greenland melt extent 2020

1981-2010 median melt 

2020 melt extent

Average annual ice loss since 2003: 235 billion tonnes

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Sources: Associated Press, NSIDC Picture: Copernicus Data/esa/Sentinel-2b
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