Record decline of ice sheets: Scientists map elevation changes of Greenlandic and Antarctic glaciers

Posted by on 20 August, 2014
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Researchers have for the first time extensively mapped Greenland's and Antarctica's ice sheets with the help of the ESA satellite CryoSat-2 and have thus been able to prove that the ice crusts of both regions momentarily decline at an unprecedented rate. In total the ice sheets are losing around 500 cubic kilometers of ice per year....
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