Greenland’s ice sheet melting at a pace of 10 cubic km per day

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NEW YORK: Greenland’s ice sheet is melting at a pace of ten cubic kilometres per day, DMI’s climate research team said in a press release on Monday.
The mass of inland ice on the sparsely-populated island is significantly less than is normally seen at this time of year and has been melting rapidly the past week.
“The warm weather has had a major impact on the melting of the inland ice,” DMI’s Peter Langen said.
The ice sheet is losing some 10 billion tonnes per day, which amounts to ten cubic kilometres of new water every day and is close to a record set in 2012. During a two-day stretch in that summer, the ice melted at a pace of 15 billion tonnes per day.