The glacier is at the end of the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream, where it flows off land and into the ocean. Since 1999, the ice shelf has lost 160 square kilometres, an area nearly twice the size of New York's Manhattan Island. "We should be very concerned about what appears to be progressive disintegration at the Arctic's largest remaining ice shelf," said GEUS professor Jason Box. Sea ice coverage minimums in particular, are now about 31 per cent lower than in the 1980s, when satellite observations began. All three variables — sea ice, temperatures and rainfall — are now being measured well beyond the range of past observations.

Source: CBC News September 14, 2020 14:18 UTC