Uploaded February 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
In the past decade or so, the annual seasonal thaw on Greenland has grown more dramatic. This animation shows visible melting along the western edge of the Greenland Ice Sheet near the Jakobshavn Glacier each August between 2000 and 2011.
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In the past decade or so, the annual seasonal thaw on Greenland has grown more dramatic. This animation shows visible melting along the western edge of the Greenland Ice Sheet near the Jakobshavn Glacier each August between 2000 and 2011.
Video produced by the Climate.gov team in cooperation with climate and Earth scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and other agencies and institutions. Any opinions voiced by people in these videos are their own; they are not official NOAA statements or opinions. Unless specifically stated otherwise, Climate.gov video productions can be freely republished or re-purposed by others.
