The Greenland ice sheet lost 5,091 square km (1,930 square miles) of area between 1985 and 2022, according to a study in the journal Nature published Wednesday, the first full estimate of area loss across the entire ice sheet. scale.

This shrinkage reflected the 1,034 gigatons (1.034 trillion kg) of ice lost as the glaciers retreated, with the ice flaking off by "calving" – when chunks of ice break away from the glacier – at their termini. (GLORIA DICKIE, more at www.aol.com)