{"id":12528,"date":"2017-08-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aequilibria.nooostaging.com\/greenlands-ice-melts-faster-than-expected\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T11:57:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T09:57:22","slug":"greenlands-ice-melts-faster-than-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aequilibria.com\/en\/greenlands-ice-melts-faster-than-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenland&#8217;s ice melts faster than expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row type=&#8221;in_container&#8221; full_screen_row_position=&#8221;middle&#8221; scene_position=&#8221;center&#8221; text_color=&#8221;dark&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; overlay_strength=&#8221;0.3&#8243;][vc_column column_padding=&#8221;no-extra-padding&#8221; column_padding_position=&#8221;all&#8221; background_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; background_hover_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243; tablet_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; phone_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221;][vc_column_text]<a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/environment\/climate-change-scientists-greenland-ice-sheet-melt-faster-worried-algae-a7858876.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scientists show a growing concern about the state of the ice in Greenland<\/a>, given the ever-faster pace it is melting.<\/p>\n<p>The total disappearance of these ice sheets, which are about 3 km thick, would lead to a rise of about 7 meters in the oceans, but it is certain that this extreme scenario will not come to fruition over the course of a few centuries.<\/p>\n<p>Today, however, the melting of Greenland ice contributes, by about 1 mm, to just under a third of the annual rise of the oceans.<\/p>\n<p>The new source of concern is related to the proliferation of algae populations on the ice surface, favoured by the already recorded increase in temperature.<\/p>\n<p>The surface of the ice thus become darker, reducing its natural reflective effect of light and favouring on the contrary a higher absorption which contributes to increase the ice temperature and hence its melting velocity. How relevant this effect is the subject of a five-year study led by the University of Bristol.<\/p>\n<p>However, the results of the twenty-yar monitoring by NASA are available of the Helheim glacier in the eastern front of Greenland, which from 1998 to 2013 showed a retraction of the calving front of more than 3 km and a reduction in thickness of about 100 m.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=&#8221;in_container&#8221; full_screen_row_position=&#8221;middle&#8221; scene_position=&#8221;center&#8221; text_color=&#8221;dark&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; overlay_strength=&#8221;0.3&#8243;][vc_column column_padding=&#8221;no-extra-padding&#8221; column_padding_position=&#8221;all&#8221; background_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; background_hover_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243; tablet_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; phone_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221;][vc_video link=&#8221;https:\/\/youtu.be\/opYSUbjb_wU&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row type=&#8221;in_container&#8221; full_screen_row_position=&#8221;middle&#8221; scene_position=&#8221;center&#8221; text_color=&#8221;dark&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; overlay_strength=&#8221;0.3&#8243;][vc_column column_padding=&#8221;no-extra-padding&#8221; column_padding_position=&#8221;all&#8221; background_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; background_hover_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243; tablet_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; phone_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221;][vc_column_text]Scientists show a growing concern about the state of the ice in Greenland, given the ever-faster pace it is melting. The total disappearance of these ice sheets, which are about 3 km thick, would lead to a rise of about 7 meters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12328,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aequilibria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aequilibria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aequilibria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aequilibria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aequilibria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.aequilibria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12530,"href":"https:\/\/www.aequilibria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12528\/revisions\/12530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aequilibria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aequilibria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aequilibria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aequilibria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}