WATCH: Greenland ice sheet warming faster than previously thought
The Greenland ice sheet is warming faster than previously thought, according to a new study of ice cores.
A water droplet is pictured in the wall of an ice cave formed at the end section of the Zinal glacier, above the alpine village of Zinal, Switzerland, 13 November 2021. EPA-EFE/VALENTIN FLAURAUD ATTENTION: This Image is part of a PHOTO SET
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A temperature reconstruction from ice cores of the past 1 000 years reveals that today’s warming in central-north Greenland is surprisingly pronounced. The most recent decade surveyed in a study, the years 2001 to 2011, was the warmest in the past 1 000 years, and the region is now 1.5 °C warmer than during the 20th century, as researchers led by the Alfred Wegener Institute just report in the journal Nature.
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