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This deep thermal feature is currently impacting ice sheet dynamics by raising temperatures at the base of the ice sheet, thereby altering its flow and melting rate.
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Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 26 Nov. 2025
As the ice sheet shrinks, its gravitational pull on the ocean declines, leading to sea levels falling in regions close to the ice sheet coast and rising farther away.
—Ambarish Karmalkar, The Conversation, 25 Nov. 2025
The remaining four per cent, in the east, are subjected to a current of sea ice from the Arctic Ocean and to violent winds that roar down the slopes of the ice sheet into the fjords.
—Ben Taub, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
The interconnected climate systems of the Greenland ice sheet, the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, the Amazon rainforest, and the South American monsoon are destabilizing.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
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Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 26 Nov. 2025
As the ice sheet shrinks, its gravitational pull on the ocean declines, leading to sea levels falling in regions close to the ice sheet coast and rising farther away.
—Ambarish Karmalkar, The Conversation, 25 Nov. 2025
The remaining four per cent, in the east, are subjected to a current of sea ice from the Arctic Ocean and to violent winds that roar down the slopes of the ice sheet into the fjords.
—Ben Taub, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
The interconnected climate systems of the Greenland ice sheet, the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, the Amazon rainforest, and the South American monsoon are destabilizing.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
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“Ice sheet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ice%20sheet. Accessed 5 Dec. 2025.
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