As Greenland’s ice melts, its rivers dump more carbon into the Arctic Ocean
A new calculation projects the melting ice sheet will contribute a third more carbon than previously thought.
August 15, 2019
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On the edge of the Greenland ice sheet, a narrow strip of land is exposed. About a meter down into that land is frozen soil that is up to 30,000 years old, the remnants of ancient plant life on the giant island.
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