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A @BBCNews report highlights that Greenland’s ice sheet may have melted by a record amount this year. It says the Qaleraliq glacier in southern Greenland may have melted by as much as 100m - enough to raise the average global sea level by at least 1 mm bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…
Greenland’s 1.7 million-square-kilometre ice sheet contains enough fresh water to flood coastal cities around the world. Warm air over the sheet is causing it to melt, but research revealed that rainfall is also causing more melting than previously thought newscientist.com/article/219597…
The speed and scale of Arctic melting is shocking even hardened researchers. Is there anything we can do to stop Greenland from turning green? newscientist.com/article/mg2423…
The only way may be to intervene directly and attempt to bring back the ice with geoengineering. Here’s three ambitious projects that aim to do just that newscientist.com/article/mg2433…
Want to hear more about glaciers? Come and hear glaciologist Andy Smith from @BAS_news talk @newscilive in London in October. More info here live.newscientist.com/2019-speaker-p… - and if you want to book tickets use the discount code SAVE12 for 12% off 
