Melting accelerates for thousands of Greenland’s northern glaciers

Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Jun 21, 2022

Greenland’s many small glaciers are melting more rapidly as the Arctic warms, contributing to sea level rise, yet they are less well-studied than the main Greenland Ice Sheet. A new study documents about a 50% increase in melting in these small but important glaciers over the past two decades.

The new study, published in the AGU journal Geophysical Research Letters, focused on “peripheral”
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