New research charts the history of the Greenland Ice Sheet and its impact on global sea levels throughout history to present day. Writing in the journal Nature Geoscience the study provides the first ...

With a new airport opening in the capital later this month and a clutch of expedition cruise itineraries available, Joanna ...

For comparison, the Antarctic ice sheet has a volume of 26.5 million cu km Greenland is currently losing ... found a similar picture when she joined an expedition to study Petermann.

IN my report of the expedition of 1870 I drew ... the sun's heat than the bluish-white ice, and thereby they contribute to the destruction of the ice-sheet, and prevent its extension.

Back then, the British North Greenland Expedition used trigonometry to calculate elevation as they traversed the ice sheet. Paterson and Reeh compared this data with radar measurements made by ...

A team of researchers is launching a scientific expedition to Greenland to advance understanding of how the region’s rapidly decaying ice sheet may affect global climate systems, including UK ...

SHENZHEN -- A study conducted by multinational scientists has unveiled noticeable meltwater storage phenomena within the entire Greenland ice sheet, indicating 20 percent upscaling in meltwater ...

The Greenland Ice Sheet is currently the largest single contributor ... The study has taken years of preparation and required difficult expeditions to some of the most remote areas of the planet.

Melting ice sheets are a wake-up call, say Hong Kong representatives on Antarctic expedition The research was conducted at the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream (NEGIS), which covers an estimated 12 ...

One of the leading proponents of this sea level spike includes the ice sheet that covers the island country of Greenland. This sheet covers about 17 lakh square kilometres of land in the Arctic.