Greenland Lost 12.5 Billion Tons of Ice in Record-Breaking, Single-Day Meltdown

After Greenland spent a good portion of July on fire, last week's heatwave similarly scorched the country's ice sheet, triggering a meltdown affecting roughly 60 percent of its surface. On Thursday alone, new data shows the ice shelf lost 12.5 billion tons to surface melting, its largest single-day loss in recorded...