2024-02-16 17:01:35
By Marc Cherki
Published yesterday at 5:39 p.m., Updated yesterday at 6:01 p.m.
Melting ice favors future rises in temperatures. Michael Grimes, University of Leeds
In thirty years, the plant cover of the large island, crossed by the Arctic Circle, has more than doubled and this trend is expected to accelerate in the future.
We could observe the worrying melting of the ice in Greenland in the Danish political series The castle (this then freed up areas more favorable to oil exploration). A team of researchers from the University of Leeds (Great Britain) has just quantified the extent of this phenomenon. The gigantic island of 2.1 million km2 (which, given its belonging to Denmark, is considered a vast piece of the Old Continent despite its location in the north of the Atlantic Ocean) has lost around 29,000 km2 of ice in thirty years, or the area of Belgium or 5% of mainland France. The melting of glaciers and layers of snow affects practically the entire surface of Greenland, except on part of the coastline. It is at the edge of today’s large glaciers, to the north and southwest of the island, that the most land has been freed from ice. But they are also found locally in the west, in the middle of the northwest and in the southeast of the island.
As a result, the surface area…
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