Because it’s essentially one big sheet of ice – the second largest ice sheet in the world in fact. Covering 81% of the island, and 2.3 km thick, it makes Greenland the keeper of roughly 8% of all of Earth’s freshwater, and contains enough ice to raise global sea levels by 7.3 metres, threatening to inundate many of the world’s biggest coastal cities.
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