'Melting faster and faster': Greenland lost 1 million tonnes of ice for each minute of 2019

'Melting faster and faster': Greenland lost 1 million tonnes of ice for each minute of 2019High temperatures saw Greenland lose enough ice to cover the US state of California in more than four feet of water in 2019 alone, a study which suggests the island lost a million tonnes of ice for every minute of the year has said.After two years in which the land masses’ summer ice melt had been negligible, satellite measurements have suggested an excessively hot 2019 saw the loss of 586 billion tons of ice melt from the island.




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