Why does it matter that Greenland is melting?

Published: Nov. 5, 2023, 2:32 p.m.

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Greenland is an island covered in a sheet of ice that is over 3km thick in places, containing 7.4 metres of average global sea level rise. \\n \\nDue to climate change, it\\u2019s melting at an astonishing rate. \\n \\nWe meet some of the people being forced to rapidly adapt their traditional ways of life. And find out why ice loss means sea level rises for elsewhere in the world \\u2013 but the opposite for the island itself

Joining presenter Graihagh Jackson are: \\n\\u2022\\tMads Malik Fuglsang Holm, reporter in Greenland \\n\\u2022\\tTwila Moon, deputy lead scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Centre, University of Colorado, USA \\n

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Producer: Ben Cooper \\nSeries Producers: Simon Watts and Alex Lewis \\nEditor: China Collins \\nSound Engineer: Tom Brignell \\nProduction Coordinators: Debbie Richford, Sophie Hill and Jacqui Johnson

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