Walloped by heat wave, Greenland sees massive ice melt
(WorldNews Belgium)

BERLIN: The heat wave that smashed high temperature records in five European countries a week ago is now over Greenland, accelerating the melting of the island´s ice sheet and causing massive ice loss in the Arctic. Greenland, the world´s largest island, is a semi-autonomous Danish territory between the Atlantic and Arctic oceans that has 82% of its surface covered in ice. The area of the Greenland ice sheet that is showing indications of melt has been growing daily, and hit a record 56.5% for this year on Wednesday, said Ruth Mottram, a climate scientist with the Danish Meteorological Institute. She says that´s expected to expand and peak on Thursday before cooler temperatures slow the pace...