India, Sept. 3 -- On August 1, 2019, tonnes of melting water formed on an ice sheet in western Greenland and drained into a moulin - a hole within a glacier/ice sheet from which water from the surface enters the ocean or is contained within a crevasse. July's heat wave in Europe spread to Greenland and melted the island's ice sheet, causing massive ice loss in the Arctic. Greenland lies between the Atlantic and Arctic oceans; 82 per cent of its surface is covered in ice.

The melt has been increasing daily; the Danish Meteorological Institute said that in July, Greenland lost 197 billion tonnes of ice and the loss will increase due to the arrival of warm air from North Africa and Spain that caused heat waves in Belgium, Germany, Luxembour...