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Retreat of Greenland's Jakobshavn Isbrae Glacier
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Satellite images from 2022 (Main image) and 1985 (Figure A) capture the retreat of Jakobshavn Isbrae, a glacier on Greenland's western coast, as icebergs broke off its edge over nearly four decades. In a recent study in Nature, researchers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California calculated that Jakobshavn lost an estimated 97 billion tons (88 billion metric tons) of ice in the period between the two images.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineRetreat of Greenland's Jakobshavn Isbrae Glacier. NASA/JPL, 2024-01-17. Public domain. ID: PIA26117.
