Glacial Retreat – Melting Ice, Changing Lands

 

❄️ Glacial Retreat – Melting Ice, Changing Lands

📍 Location: Greenland, Antarctica, and glaciers worldwide

🕰️ Timeframe: Rapid melting since the 1990s

Before

For thousands of years, thick ice sheets covered Greenland and Antarctica, locking in massive amounts of water.

After

• Greenland loses 250–300 billion tons of ice every year.

• Antarctica (especially West Antarctica) is melting quickly and raising sea levels.

• New land, fjords, and rocky coastlines are being exposed as ice disappears.

• Glaciers are retreating inland, reshaping shorelines.

Cause

The main cause is global warming—temperatures are rising, and ice is melting faster than new snow can replace it.

Today

The melting is speeding up, threatening coastal cities worldwide and changing polar landscapes forever.