Jon Lapidese August 19, 2016 The Greenland Ice Is Melting... In My Drink Jon Lapidese August 19, 2016 4 min readGreenland is not green. It’s white, covered with a gigantic sheet of ice - 660,000 square miles - roughly a quarter the size of the U.S. Incredibly, this ice sheet also rises one and half miles into the sky.