Climate Facts: Greenland’s ice sheet cracking rapidly due to global warming

The complexities of climate change and its associated jargon can prove difficult to digest.

TheCable’s quick climate facts will help demystify these concepts through easy-to-understand and straight-to-the-point explanations.

Here are some to keep at the tip of your fingers:

• A study by First Street Foundation says climate change will eliminate about $1.47 trillion in US home values over the next three decades and hasten economic gaps in US communities.

• The study found that by 2055, climate-driven weather is expected to hike US homeowners’ insurance premiums nationwide by an average of 29.4 percent.

• A new report by UK’s Durham University says Greenland’s ice sheet is cracking more rapidly due to climate change.

• The report revealed that crevasses — deep open cracks on the surfaces of glaciers as caused by extensive stress — significantly increased in size and depth between 2016 and 2021.

• A report by the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) says 2.2 million Nigerian students experienced school disruptions due to flooding in 2024.

• UNICEF said over 107 million children in Africa are already out of school, noting that climate-related disruptions in 2024 alone put an additional 20 million children at risk of dropping out.