Greenland’s coastline expands by more than 1600km due to glacial retreat

With rising temperatures in the Arctic, glaciers retreat to land, exposing thousands of kilometres of coastlines in Greenland and elsewhere, with potential geopolitical consequences.

Yang Kaban The Czech Republic and his colleagues, South Bohemia University, used satellite images taken in 2000 and 2020 to track changes in marine terming glaciers in the Northern Hemisphere. They discovered that, as the glacier retreated to land and there is this two-thirds, a new coastline of about 2,500 kilometers appeared during this period…