Engineering firms explore plan to slow melting of Greenland glacier

Companies are considering a large geoengineering task that would physique a obstruction to artifact lukewarm seawater from reaching the basal of Jakobshavn glacier successful Greenland

Environment 21 October 2022

By Rowan Hooper

Satellite representation of Jakobshavn glacier, Greenland, successful 2019

NASA Earth Observatory/Joshua Stevens/U.S. Geological Survey

Major engineering companies are looking astatine plans to dilatory the melting of a gigantic Greenland glacier, successful what would beryllium the archetypal large-scale involution to sphere crystal anyplace successful the world. If it goes ahead, and if it works, it could suggest a mode to dilatory oversea level emergence from Antarctic melt, too.

Norway’s Aker Solutions and the Arup Group, based successful London, sent representatives to a gathering successful Reykjavik, Iceland, connected 12 October successful which proposals were discussed to conception …