With Greenland’s Extreme Melting, a New Risk Grows: Ice Slabs That Worsen Runoff

Scientists have added a new item to the long list of Greenland Ice Sheet woes: giant slabs of ice have been thickening and spreading under the Greenland snow at an average rate of two football fields per minute since 2001, new research shows. That has implications for sea level rise. Extreme melt years like 2019 are a big part of the problem.