Watch as Greenland melts

A new webcam set up in Ilulissat will allow the world to watch as global warming eats away at Greenland’s ice cap.

The webcam is set up near the Ice Fjord, a Unesco World Heritage Site. The Ilulissat Glacier, which empties into the fjord, is the world’s most active glacier. The glacier moves along at a pace of 22 metres per day and dumps a constant flow of ice into the fjord.


…Greenland’s inland ice cap covers an area of 1.7 million square kilometres – about 80 percent of the country’s total area. The ice cap covers 2.8 milion cubic kilometres of ice. If all of it melted at once, the world’s oceans would rise by more than seven metres.

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