![A beautiful view of Greenland showing a small patch of snow in the foreground against a backdrop of greenery, with a lake in the background](http://www.leeds.ac.uk/images/resized/600x300-0-0-1-80-greenland_2_resized.jpg)
Greenland’s ice sheet is melting - and being replaced by vegetation
An estimated 11,000 sq miles or 28,707 sq kilometres of Greenland’s ice sheet and glaciers have melted over the last three decades, according to a major analysis of historic satellite records.