So much ice melted in Greenland, drowning America in half a meter of water

Events in the last 30 years: 1.3 cm rise in sea level

COINHAGEN: Greenland's massive ice sheet has melted enough to submerge the entire United States in half a meter of water over the past 20 years, according to data released by Danish researchers this week. According to NASA, the climate in the Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else on Earth, and melting ice in Greenland is now a major factor in raising the surface of the Earth's oceans.

Greenland's ice sheet has been losing about 6,500 cubic kilometers since sea levels began to be measured in 2006, the polar portal said. Many Danish Arctic research institutes are also affiliated with this portal. The amount of water produced by melting ice is enough to submerge the entire United States in half a meter of water, and this has caused an increase in sea level by 1.5 cm, according to the Arctic Monitoring website.

The Polar Portal has also discovered that it is based on a satellite image taken by the US-German Grace Program (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment). Which shows that the melting of ice on the edge of the ice sheet near the coast of the Arctic region is a very serious matter. In this peripheral zone, independent observations also indicate that the ice is thinning. Glaciers are retreating on the fronts and on the ground and there is a large amount of melting from the ice surface, the website said.

The data state that the west coast of Greenland is affected by mass. The climate crisis in the Arctic is particularly worrisome. Scientists say temperatures are rising three to four times the global average.