Thaw in Greenland surprised polar researchers

- Greenland is the thaw occurred on an unprecedented scale.

Pool scholars on the Danish Meteorological Service (DMI) found that melted in two days of nearly 12 percent of the Greenland ice sheet over a millimeter.

Since the beginning of the measurements is the temperature in April also have never been so high.

,, You see it and think: that can not be beat, '' outlined climate researcher Peter Langen Friday the situation. Vanishing ice on a similar large surface was observed in the past at the earliest in May.