The 2024 melt season for the Greenland Ice Sheet ended with the second-lowest cumulative daily melt extent in this century, ranking twenty-eighth in the satellite record, which began in 1979. A late ...

Greenland's mega-canyon was originally cut by an ancient river system The data for the map comes from three principal sources - from airborne radar that is able to penetrate the ice sheet to see ...

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 ...

Scientists have identified more than 50 new lakes of liquid water lying under the Greenland Ice Sheet. Only four had previously been detected. Antarctica hides some 470 lakes beneath its ice but ...

The maps here show the world as it is now ... West Antarctica: Like the Greenland ice sheet, the West Antarctic one was apparently much smaller during earlier warm periods. It's vulnerable ...

A new study published in Nature unveils a surprising discovery: a substantial amount of meltwater is temporarily stored within the Greenland Ice Sheet during summer months. For the first time ...

A vast network of ocean currents nicknamed the "great global ocean conveyor belt" is slowing down. That's a problem because ...

Now, a new study claims that we may have a small window of opportunity to turn things around and save the melting ice sheet that covers Greenland. The vast ice sheet that covers most of Greenland ...

This sea level rise is equivalent to that caused by Greenland’s entire ice sheet over the past 50 years. The researchers collected data from as far as 200 kilometres inland, showing that ice ...

Poinar’s work focuses primarily on the Greenland Ice Sheet. One of her studies found that meltwater inside certain deep fissures called crevasses can reach bedrock and find its way to the ocean, ...

Large meltwater accumulation revealed inside Greenland Ice Sheet Date: October 30, 2024 Source: Delft University of Technology Summary: A new study unveils a surprising discovery: a substantial ...