Greenland is rising. As the ice melts, land is moving upward about a inch and a half every year:

Greenland appears to be floating upwards – its landmass is rising up to 4 centimetres each year, scientists reveal.

And the large country’s new-found buoyancy is a symptom of Greenland’s shrinking ice cap, they add.

“The Earth is elastic and if you put a load on top of it, then the surface will move down; if you remove the load, then the surface will start rising again,” explains Shfaqat Khan of the Danish National Space Center in Copenhagen.

In the case of Greenland, the “load” is its ice cap, he says.