Greenland is the world's largest island. Formerly a province of Denmark, it gained the status of an autonomous Danish dependent territory with limited self-government as well as its own parliament in 1979.
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The climate in Greenland is extremely harsh. More than 80% of the island is covered by an ice cap which is 4km thick in places.
Preliminary results suggest that Greenland's ice cover has shrunk to a record low this summer, 2007. Dr Bob Corell, chairman of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, told a symposium of scientists and religious leaders in Greenland, which finished this week, that the acceleration of the Arctic ice melt was now "massive".
Here are few pictures & description on Greedland Melting.
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Greenland's Ice Sheet is undergoing massive changes, including melted lakes on the surface and holes in the overflow channel leading to a moulin, a crevasse through which water enters a glacier bed from the surface.
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Scientists discover large holes on the surface of Greenland's Ice Sheet, which can shift vertically and horizontally as a result.
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Melted ice can be seen on the surface of the ice sheet.
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Several fractures have appeared on the ice sheet. A large surface glacial lake can drain in less than two hours, pouring water down through a 980-meter-thick ice sheet at an average rate exceeding that of the flow at Niagara Falls.
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A large channel has been carved out by melted water on the ice sheet's surface.
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Meltwater, or the melting of snow or ice, rushes across the surface of the ice sheet, filling up a lake.
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Scientist Ian Joughin observes a large fracture running through the lake basin in Greenland. Newly formed blocks of ice are more prevalent on the surface of the ice sheet.