The Polar Portal, which brings together the Danish institutes of the Arctic, specified that that “melting contributed to raising sea level by 1.2 centimeters”.
Global warming is especially alarming in the Arctic where, in recent decades, it has occurred three to four times faster than the rest of the planet, according to the latest scientific studies.
The accelerated melting near the coast is explained by the warming of the waters of the Arctic Ocean, which contribute “at least as much as the air on the surface” to the decline of the Greenland ice sheet, affirms another study published at the end of January by NASA in the United States.