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The Greenland ice sheet already sheds around 280 billion tons of ice a year, enough to cover the whole of Manhattan in a layer of ice roughly 2 miles thick.
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Laura Paddison, CNN, 12 Mar. 2025
According to the results, on March 14, 2022, the Greenland ice sheet received 11.6 billion tons of snow, with an additional 4.5 billion tons falling over the next few days.
—Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 4 Mar. 2025
In 1953, the Army even built a pair of secret surveillance sites inside the ice sheet, both equipped with Air Force radar units looking 24/7 for Soviet missiles and aircraft, but also with weather stations to understand the Arctic climate system.
—Paul Bierman, The Conversation, 17 Mar. 2025
The base itself was a study in the feasibility of long-term human habitation on the ice sheet.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 15 Mar. 2025
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Laura Paddison, CNN, 12 Mar. 2025
According to the results, on March 14, 2022, the Greenland ice sheet received 11.6 billion tons of snow, with an additional 4.5 billion tons falling over the next few days.
—Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 4 Mar. 2025
In 1953, the Army even built a pair of secret surveillance sites inside the ice sheet, both equipped with Air Force radar units looking 24/7 for Soviet missiles and aircraft, but also with weather stations to understand the Arctic climate system.
—Paul Bierman, The Conversation, 17 Mar. 2025
The base itself was a study in the feasibility of long-term human habitation on the ice sheet.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 15 Mar. 2025
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“Ice sheet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ice%20sheet. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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