Copenhagen-Sana
A heat wave on the island of Greenland in the North Atlantic caused an accelerated melting of the ice sheet covering a vast area in the Arctic at a rate of 8 billion tons per day.
The Danish Meteorological Institute said in a statement that "unusual temperatures were recorded in the region, reaching record levels of more than 20 degrees Celsius."
The plate began to shrink several decades ago, and the pace of this decline has accelerated since 1990 until the present day.
Greenland includes the second largest ice sheet after Antarctica, extending over about 8.1 million square kilometers, and the melting period in the region is usually from June to the beginning of September.
