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Record melt: Greenland lost 586 billion tons of ice in 2019

by AP Science Writer
| August 20, 2020 8:27 AM

Greenland lost a record amount of ice during an extra warm 2019, with the melt massive enough to cover California in more than four feet (1.25 meters) of water, a new study said.

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