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Greenhouse gas emissions can lead to sea level rise of 40 cm by the end of this century

Even in the lower emissions scenario, the Greenland sheet would raise oceans by around three cm by 2100 — beyond what is already destined to melt due to the additional 1C of warming humans have caused in the industrial age.

Massive chunk of Greenland's ice caps has broken off, falls into the sea; evidence of rapid climate change

The ice came off a fjord called Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden and is around 110 square kilometres big.

Ice caps are melting, researchers finally calculate the astonishing volumes of it

Greenland's glaciers alone appear to have contributed to a 13.7-millimeter rise in sea levels since 1972.

Watch: Sunnier weather accelerating Greenland's ice melt

Getting hot, hot, hot: Mount Everest getting warmer, glaciers shrinking, says research

Mount Everest is getting warmer for the past 50 years with the glaciers around the world's highest peak shrinking "remarkably", according to a Chinese research.

Glacier on Tibetan plateau retreating: report

Glacier on the Tibetan plateau has been retreating since the 20th century due to rising temperature, and at a faster speed since 1990s, a report on the environmental change in the region said on Wednesday.