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After Greenland spent a good portion of July on fire, last week’s heatwave similarly scorched the country’s ice sheet, triggering a meltdown affecting roughly 60 percent of its surface. On August 1 alone, new data shows the ice shelf lost 12 billion tons to surface melting, its largest single-day loss in recorded history.(Photo/IC)
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After Greenland spent a good portion of July on fire, last week’s heatwave similarly scorched the country’s ice sheet, triggering a meltdown affecting roughly 60 percent of its surface. On August 1 alone, new data shows the ice shelf lost 12 billion tons to surface melting, its largest single-day loss in recorded history.(Photo/Agencies)
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After Greenland spent a good portion of July on fire, last week’s heatwave similarly scorched the country’s ice sheet, triggering a meltdown affecting roughly 60 percent of its surface. On August 1 alone, new data shows the ice shelf lost 12 billion tons to surface melting, its largest single-day loss in recorded history.(Photo/Agencies)
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After Greenland spent a good portion of July on fire, last week’s heatwave similarly scorched the country’s ice sheet, triggering a meltdown affecting roughly 60 percent of its surface. On August 1 alone, new data shows the ice shelf lost 12 billion tons to surface melting, its largest single-day loss in recorded history.(Photo/Agencies)
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After Greenland spent a good portion of July on fire, last week’s heatwave similarly scorched the country’s ice sheet, triggering a meltdown affecting roughly 60 percent of its surface. On August 1 alone, new data shows the ice shelf lost 12 billion tons to surface melting, its largest single-day loss in recorded history.(Photo/Agencies)