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Greenland’s meltwater is raising sea levels at a growing rate

June 27, 2017 Environment 535 Views

Ocean levels rose 50 percent faster in 2014 than in 1993, with meltwater from the Greenland ice sheet now supplying 25 percent of total sea level increase compared with just five percent 20 years earlier….

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