The Greenland Ice Sheet is the largest in the northern hemisphere. Due to the loss of ice in the course of climate change, the island is slowly being raised and the coasts are changing. But the impact of the loss goes much further than thought. Picture: Michael Wenger...
The Thwaites Glacier area is the largest catchment area of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Around 5,000 gigatonnes of ice have melted here in the past 40 years, which is equivalent to more than a third of the total melted ice in Antarctica. Underneath the area is...