A few days ago, because of a huge iceberg that sailed too close to the shores of Greenland, all 180 residents of the small village of Innaarsuit were evacuated.
The threat from this iceberg is the most real. At any moment, it could split and cause a tsunami. Then the settlement would simply be washed off the face of the earth. The nearby power plant would also be severely damaged.
It is reported that the iceberg weighs at least 11 million tons, but as it turned out, it is not alone there. An image from the Sentinel-2 satellite of the European Space Agency on July 9 revealed several of the same huge icebergs floating off the coast of Greenland.
While the appearance of icebergs off the coast of Greenland is fairly common, representatives of the European Space Agency say that the block that has swam up to Innaarsuit is the largest ever recorded.
Fortunately, over the past few days, a huge iceberg, about 100 meters high, has gone a little further into the ocean and the residents of the village, apparently, are no longer in danger.
This and other icebergs seen in the satellite image broke off a large glacier in eastern Greenland on 22 June. Perhaps global warming is to blame for this, and it is now very important for scientists to trace how the subsequent melting of these icebergs will affect the water level.
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Professor David Holland from the University of New York, who heads the research group, is sure that the rise in the level of the world ocean in the near future is inevitable and undeniable. The group's goal is to track how and why large icebergs are separated from glaciers and how they affect global sea level rise.
In 2017, for example, it was calculated that the disappearance of the entire western Antarctic ice sheet would lead to a 3-meter rise in sea level.