Living plants found under kilometer-long ice in Greenland

The authors of the new work studied plants found in ice. Their results show that most or all

Greenland will thaw out of ice within the next million years, or perhaps even a few hundred thousand years.

This discovery helps confirm the new and disappointing fact that Greenland ice has seriously declined during the Earth's last active period of warming. 

The authors of the work study Greenland's ice in order to predict its response to future global warming and the rate of melting.

Global sea level rise is also associated with the active melting of Greenland's ice, so coastal cities are under threat.

New research confirms that Greenland is more fragile and sensitive to climate change than previously thought, and is at serious risk of irreversible melt.

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