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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Mattha Busby

First Thing: major sea-level rise from ice cap melting ‘now inevitable’

Meltwater flows from the ice sheet into Baffin Bay near Pituffik in northern Greenland.
Meltwater flows from the ice sheet into Baffin Bay near Pituffik in northern Greenland. Photograph: Kerem Yücel/AFP/Getty Images

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Research based on satellite measurements of ice losses from Greenland and the shape of the ice cap from 2000-19 has allowed scientists to calculate how the climate crisis has pushed the ice sheet from an equilibrium where snowfall matches the ice lost.

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