{
  "id": 16591266,
  "title": "Why China’s new estimate on Greenland ice loss speed is 55% lower than America’s",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/26/why-chinas-new-estimate-on-greenland-ice-loss-speed-is-55-lower-than-16591266",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-26T10:19:46.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3372129/why-chinas-new-estimate-greenland-ice-loss-speed-55-lower-americas"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Chinese researchers have created a new model to convert satellite surface elevation data for the Greenland Ice Sheet into a detailed estimate of how much ice it has lost in recent decades. Using satellite altimetry data covering 2002 to 2023, they found that the ice sheet lost an average of about 120 gigatonnes (264.5 trillion lbs) of mass per year. This figure is considerably lower than the…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}