Changes in a Greenland Glacier Hid a Grim Truth of Ice Sheet’s Destruction : ScienceAlert

Observing Greenland from a helicopter, the main problem is one of comprehending scale.

I have thought we were skimming low over the waves of a fjord, before noticing the tiny shadow of a seabird far below and realising what I suspected were floating shards of ice were in fact icebergs the size of office blocks.

I have thought we were hovering high in the sky over a featureless icy plane…