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Source: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14012020/ocean-heat-2019-warmest-year-argo-hurricanes-
corals-marine-animals-heatwaves

3.3 Shrinking Ice Sheets

The Greenland and Antarctic ice coats have reduced their weight. Data from NASA’s gravity and climate
experiment show that between 1993 and 2016 Greenland lost an average of 286 billion tonnes of ice per
year, while Antarctica lost about 127 billion tonnes of ice per year during the same period. The rate of ice
mass loss in Antarctica has tripled over the last decade. 1

1 https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7159