Climate Change Impacts Explained in Real Time

Greenland Mass Variation Since 2002

NASA / GRACE satellite data

Data from NASA's GRACE satellites show that the land ice sheets in both Antarctica and Greenland are losing mass.

The Greenland ice sheet has been losing an estimated 287 gigatonnes per year.

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