Academics from Northumbria University have joined an international research team that has utilised satellite data to monitor changes in the thickness of the Greenland Ice Sheet. This study is ...
Greenland holds enough ice that if it all melts, the world's seas would rise by 24 feet (7.4 meters). Nearly a foot of that is so-called zombie ice, already doomed to melt no matter what happens ...
Greenland, which has a tenth of the world’s ice, is currently 80% frozen. According to previous research, global sea levels could rise by as much as 6.4 metres if the entire ice sheet melted.
And surface melt on Greenland’s ice sheet has been accelerating, spurred by soaring temperatures in the Arctic, which is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet. In 2017, after two ...
Parts of the Greenland ice sheet are melting at up to nearly 42 centimeters (cms) per year, and the thinning is affecting ice at higher altitudes than expected, according to a study published this ...
The U.S. would inherit an environmental dilemma of its own making if it lays claim to the massive Arctic island. Deep in Greenland’s frozen wilderness, a radioactive secret sleeps beneath the ...
Reuters photographer Lucas Jackson managed to document one of these moments when he was in Greenland with scientists in 2018. “They said the mass of that ice was ... twice as fast as the rest ...
Every summer you send off giant chunks of your ice floe into the Atlantic ... And as for allowing us to buy Greenland, that window is closing fast. We don’t have to buy our way into Greenland ...