Why is the Greenland Ice Sheet melting faster than ever?

Senior scientist Claudia Cenedese has been studying how glaciers melt for the last 15 years in her fluids laboratory. In 2018 she was a principal investigator on a research cruise in Greenland for the first time. She wants to understand why the Greenland Ice Sheet is melting faster than ever and what happens to the fresh water released into the ocean. Learn more: Produced by Elise Hugus & Daniel Cojanu, UnderCurrent Productions Music used under Creative Commons license Lazy Salon - Drop Light Helheim calving footage courtesy Gordon Hamilton, University of Maine - Orono Funding for this video and research provided by the National Science Foundation grant OCE-1658079