This is one of thousands of giant sinkholes, or moulins, in Greenland where water is draining through the ice sheet into the ocean. Meltwater from Greenland is the largest current contributor to ...
This story appears in the November 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. Late one quiet November night in the village of Niaqornat, 300 miles above the Arctic Circle on Greenland’s west ...
Greenland is now losing ice seven times faster than it was in the 1990s. The assessment comes from the Imbie group - an international team of polar scientists who've reviewed all the satellite ...
The Polar Portal website has reported that the Greenland ice sheet recent “massive melting event” released enough mass to cover the state of Florida with 5 centimeters of water. According to ...
In this image taken on Thursday Aug.1, 2019 large rivers of melting water form on an ice sheet in western Greenland and drain into moulin holes that empty into the ocean from underneath the ice. The ...
Glaciers and ice caps in Greenland are melting at three times the rate they were at the start of the 20th century, according to a study. Scientists from the universities of Portsmouth and Leeds ...
Three young Greenlanders witnessing the ice caps melting have expressed worry about the impact that would make on other countries. Scientists researching the Greenland ice sheet say this summer ...
ILULISSAT, Greenland (CNN)-- From the air, Greenland's ice sheet, the second largest on Earth, appears to be perfectly still. But below the surface, the ice sheet is in constant motion, as ice ...
Sea levels are rising more than expected as Greenland’s glaciers melt faster than anticipated, according to research by Shfaqat Abbas Khan at the Technical University of Denmark and his colleagues.
UN weather agency issues ‘red alert’ on climate change after record heat, ice-melt increases in 2023 The U.N. weather agency is sounding a "red alert" about global warming, citing record ...
This is one of thousands of giant sinkholes, or moulins, in Greenland where water is draining through the ice sheet into the ocean. Meltwater from Greenland is the largest current contributor to ...