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The Greenland Ice Sheet contains 2,850,000 cubic kilometers of ice. It is melting at a rate of 0.005% per

year. How many cubic kilometers are lost the first year

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The amount of ice lost the first year would be 142,500 cubic kilometers (2,850,000 cubic kilometers x 0.005%).

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