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Study finds Greenland lost 1 trillion tons of ice in just 4 years

REUTERS — Between 2011 and 2014 Greenland shed 1 trillion tons of ice – that’s according to new data from the European Space Agency. The ice loss in those four years alone, corresponds to a 0.75 mm contribution to global sea-level rise each year – about twice the average of the preceding two decades. The latest data was gathered using the space agency’s CryoSat satellite combined with a regional climate model to map changes in […]