Greenland’s warning sign about the iceberg
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High temperatures in the Arctic cause retreat to the ground, exposing thousands of kilometers from the coast in Greenland and other areas – with possible geopolitical consequences.
Jean Kavan At the University of South Bohemia in the Czech Republic, his colleagues used satellite photos taken in 2000 and 2020 to track the changes in ice rivers that end freely across the northern hemisphere. They found that approximately 2500 km of the new coast appeared during this period due to the decline in ice rivers on the ground, with two -thirds of this …