For those of you who have been reading about the recent melting in Greenland, here is a very informative discussion by UGA’s resident expert, geography professor Dr. Tom Mote. He does field work in Greenland most summers and knows a lot about the dynamics of ice sheets there. You can read it at The Hill here.

Arctic cotton grass grows on Greenland’s seashore. Sedge is almost four weeks ahead of its timetable 10 years ago. Photograph: Pearl Bucknall/Alamy