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Infographic showing melt streams on Greenland Ice Sheet with summary text in lower right corner indicating Greenland ice sheet loss has increased 7-fold in the past three decades, from about 35 billion tons per year from 1992–1996 to 257 billion tonnes per year from 2017-2020.

Melt streams on the Greenland Ice Sheet on July 19, 2015. Ice loss from the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets as well as alpine glaciers has accelerated in recent decades. NASA photo by Maria-José Viñas.