Olsen and a team of scientists had been traveling for hours on the ice when they encountered the shocking conditions, the BBC ...

Greenland’s ice sheet, a massive reservoir of roughly 8 percent of the planet’s freshwater, is losing ice at an accelerating ...

Mapping cracks In a new study, my colleagues and I mapped crevasses across the entirety of the Greenland ice sheet in 2016 and 2021.To do this, we used the “ArcticDEM”: three-dimensional ...

a structure that connects the Greenland ice sheet to the Arctic Ocean. Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable SEE ALSO: NASA photo reveals a startling 300-foot-wide rift in Antarctic ...

Greenland is a bellwether of global disruption driven by climate change. The ice sheet is dwindling in real time. Sapphire lakes of meltwater, sometimes miles wide, collect on glaciers in summer.

The global climate is in an imbalance. Potential "tipping elements" include the Greenland ice sheet, coral reefs, and the ...

Entrepreneurs are hauling bergs from the Arctic island, betting there are enough people willing to pay up for an ...

Greenland’s massive ice sheet is losing ice at an accelerating rate, with scientists warning that a global temperature rise of just 2°C could trigger irreversible collapse. The loss of 230 ...

I am a geoscientist who studies the environmental history of Greenland and its ice sheet, including natural hazards and climate change. That knowledge is essential for understanding the risks that ...

The study concludes that the changes to Greenland's glaciers in the past decade are widespread, large and sustained over time and they are progressively affecting the entire ice sheet and ...