Greenland Ice Sheet Shrinking

from CNN

Accoding to NASA scientisits, the vast sheet of ice that covers Greenland is shrinking fast, but still not as fast as previous research indicated. Greenland's low coastal regions lost 41 cubic miles of ice each year between 2003 and 2005 from excess melting and icebergs. The high-elevation interior gained 14 cubic miles annually from excess snowfall. This is a change from the 1990s, when ice gains approximately equaled losses.

The Greenland ice sheet is considered an early indicator of the consequences of global warming, so even a slower ice melt there raises concerns.