For the first time, researchers have collected detailed measurements of water vapor high above the surface of the Greenland ...

This is what’s happening as the Greenland Ice Sheet shrinks. Covering the world’s largest island, the Greenland Ice Sheet is one of the globe’s biggest and most important water towers. The ice sheet ...

Camp Century was built to store nukes beneath Greenland's ice. See photos of the underground, "Star Wars"-like site.

Triggered by an abrupt period of warming during the late Pleistocene, which ended about 11,700 years ago, the collapse of the Cordilleran ice sheet holds important lessons for both the style and pace ...

Norwegian scientists from the University of Bergen and drone specialist Marble have found a way to monitor Greenland's ice sheet, which is under severe strain and threatened by increasing melting ...

For the first time, researchers have collected detailed measurements of water vapor high above the surface of the Greenland ice sheet. Their research, aided by a custom-designed drone, could help ...

Resilient Algae May Speed Up Greenland Ice Melt Feb. 19, 2025 — New research reveals that ice algae can store nutrients which may enable them to colonize more of the ice sheet, darkening and melting ...

About 125,000 years ago, during a warm period, Greenland’s ice sheet was smaller, and global sea levels were up to 19 feet higher. Today, with rising temperatures and melting ice, scientists ...

GREENLAND, AS YOU MAY KNOW, IS NEITHER NOT GREEN AND NOT REALLY LAND, BUT RATHER COVERED BY THE SECOND LARGEST BODY OF ICE IN THE WORLD, SECOND ONLY TO THE ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET. BUT THE ICE IS MELTING.

For the first time, researchers have collected detailed measurements of water vapor high above the surface of the Greenland ice sheet. Their research, aided by a custom-designed drone, could help ...