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Greenland is melting and everyone from Mumbai to Manhattan should be worried

We looked at the three largest glaciers in Greenland and used historical aerial photographs combined with measurements scientists had taken directly over the years, to reconstruct how the volume of these glaciers had changed over the period 1880 to 2012.

Over the period of this study, the sea globally has risen by around 20 cm and of that, about a finger’s width is entirely thanks to ice melting from Greenland glaciers.