--- title: Global Warming Accelerating Greenland's Ice Loss, Study Says description: Ice loss in a region of Greenland's massive ice sheet that scientists had previously believed was stable has actually tripled in the last decade canonical: https://time.com/26618/study-says-climate-change-accelerating-greenlands-ice-loss/ author: Sam Frizell article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-16T19:39:13.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T06:47:43.232Z article:section: Science og:title: Global Warming Accelerating Greenland's Ice Loss, Study Says og:description: Ice loss in a region of Greenland's massive ice sheet that scientists had previously believed was stable has actually tripled in the last decade og:url: https://time.com/26618/study-says-climate-change-accelerating-greenlands-ice-loss/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4521fcfe3f263b68/698685b255a859b4a4a7fbfb/greenlandicesheet.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5184 og:image:height: 2916 og:image:alt: Greenland: A Laboratory For The Symptoms Of Global Warming og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Global Warming Accelerating Greenland's Ice Loss, Study Says twitter:description: Ice loss in a region of Greenland's massive ice sheet that scientists had previously believed was stable has actually tripled in the last decade twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4521fcfe3f263b68/698685b255a859b4a4a7fbfb/greenlandicesheet.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Study Says Climate Change Accelerating Greenland's Ice Loss > Sponsored content. 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Joe Raedle—Getty Images by [Sam Frizell](https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Mar 16, 2014 7:39 PM UTC Greenland’s ice sheet is rapidly [melting](http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/03/16/northeast-greenlands-ice-loss-triples/6385095/) in areas previously believed to be stable, leading to accelerated rises in global sea levels, according to a study published Sunday. While scientists have been aware that climate change has caused Greenland’s ice sheet to thin for decades, melting in the sheet’s northeast region has been discovered for the first time, _USA Today_ reports. Ice loss in the northeast region of Greenland has nearly tripled since 2003, with the ice sheet retreating 12.4 miles over the past decade and losing 10 billion tons of ice per year from April 2003 to April 2012, according to the new study The rapid change in the northeast region “surprised everyone,” said study co-author Michael Bevis, a professor of earth sciences at Ohio State University. The loss of Greenland’s ice sheet has been a major contributor to global sea level rise over the past 20 years, accounting for one-sixth of the annual rise. As humans emit increasing quantities of carbon into the atmosphere, the atmosphere more readily absorbs sunlight, warming the planet and causing sea levels to rise. Ice deflects most sunlight from the earth’s surface, but water absorbs heat from the sun. This causes a positive feedback loop: as temperatures rise, more ice becomes water, causing the temperature to rise further and ice sheets like the one in Greenland to melt at an increasing pace. \[[_USA Today_\]](http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/03/16/northeast-greenlands-ice-loss-triples/6385095/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/26618/study-says-climate-change-accelerating-greenlands-ice-loss/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/26618/study-says-climate-change-accelerating-greenlands-ice-loss/"},"headline":"Study Says Climate Change Accelerating Greenland's Ice Loss","datePublished":"2014-03-16T19:39:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T06:47:43.232Z","description":"New research is upending scientists' long-held belief that Greenland's ice sheets are stable, showing instead that global climate change is melting the country's ice at a much faster rate than once believed, leading to an increase in the world's sea levels","url":"https://time.com/26618/study-says-climate-change-accelerating-greenlands-ice-loss/","keywords":["Environment","climate change","global warming"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4521fcfe3f263b68/698685b255a859b4a4a7fbfb/greenlandicesheet.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sam Frizell","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4521fcfe3f263b68/698685b255a859b4a4a7fbfb/greenlandicesheet.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Greenland: A Laboratory For The Symptoms Of Global Warming","caption":"Greenland: A Laboratory For The Symptoms Of Global Warming","creditText":"Joe Raedle—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/environment/","name":"Environment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/26618/study-says-climate-change-accelerating-greenlands-ice-loss/","name":"Study Says Climate Change Accelerating Greenland's Ice Loss"}}]}] ```