In this episode, Saima shares knowledge about Greenland Ice Melts in 2019. Greenland Ice sheets melt. Greenland is the 2nd largest ice sheet on the planet after Antarctica, melted at a rate in summer of 2019. Scientists says the melts due to increasing global temperatures. It’s normal that during summer ice melts and winter snowfalls gain ice mass but that’s not what’s happening in Greenland Ice sheet.

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Sources:

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/145498/uptick-in-amazon-fire-activity-in-2019

https://www.globalfiredata.org/forecast.html

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/16/thinning-of-antarctic-ice-sheets-spreading-inland-rapidly-study

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/ice-sheet/

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/145392/warm-weather-brings-major-melting-to-greenland

https://nsidc.org/cryosphere/quickfacts/icesheets.html

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49483580

https://sealevel.nasa.gov/news/171/landsat-illustrates-five-decades-of-change-to-greenland-glaciers

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-glacier-mass-balance

https://nsidc.org/cryosphere/sotc/glacier_balance.html