Jakobshavn Isbrae, a glacier on Greenland’s western coast, is shown in imagery taken on September 4, 2022, by Landsat 8, breaking at its edge. A…
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Researchers, including those from the University at Buffalo, have discovered that Greenland’s peripheral glaciers are retreating at an alarming rate, with the 21st-century retreat rate…
A collaborative study has found that Greenland’s peripheral glaciers are retreating at an unprecedented rate, with the retreat in the 21st century being twice as…
Danish researchers have conducted a comprehensive study revealing a dramatic increase in Greenland’s glacier melting over the past 20 years, five times faster than in…
Researchers have reported that while Greenland’s surface ice melt has accelerated due to the combined effects of warming and the influence of Foehn and katabatic…
The Liverpool Land peninsula, on the east coast of Greenland, is featured in this Copernicus Sentinel-2 image. The peninsula is visible at the top partially covered…
Sea level rise contributions from the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets, and maps of projected 2150 CE Antarctic ice sheet surface elevation following different greenhouse…
The latest temperature reconstruction indicates that the past decade in the cores is approximately 1.5 degrees warmer than the long-term average. A recent scientific study,…
A Southeast Greenland polar bear on glacier, or freshwater, ice at 61 degrees north in September 2016 taken during NASA’s Oceans Melting Greenland field mission.…
This artist’s conception shows how double ridges on the surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa may form over shallow, refreezing water pockets within the ice shell.…
Photo from fieldwork at the edge of the Greenland Ice Sheet in 2019. Credit: Pierre Beck Danish and Swedish researchers have dated the enormous Hiawatha…
Water flowing into a moulin and down to the bed of Store Glacier, Greenland. Credit: Poul Christoffersen Researchers have observed extremely high rates of melting…
NASA’s Oceans Melting Greenland airborne mission found that Greenland’s glaciers that empty into the ocean, like Apusiaajik Glacier shown here, are at greater risk of…
Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite image of Kangerlussuaq Glacier, Greenland This false-color image shows visible changes on the ground and sea surface between three different acquisition dates.…
Surface meltwater flowing towards the ocean through a channel in Greenland. Credit: Ian Joughin Global warming has caused extreme ice melting events in Greenland to…
Surface meltwater flowing towards the ocean through a channel in Greenland. Credit: Ian Joughin Global warming has caused extreme ice melting events in Greenland to…
September 12, 2021 The remnants of Hurricane Larry dropped abundant snowfall on Greenland just as the summer melt season was coming to an end. Hurricanes…
Ice capped and snow-covered mountains of coastal west Greenland. (April 2015). Credit: Matthew Osman © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Greenland may be best known for…
A study led by Princeton University researchers found that as meltwater lakes on the surface of Greenland’s ice sheet (pictured) rapidly drain, they create water…
August 12, 2021 August 15, 2021 The island’s vast ice sheet underwent multiple bouts of widespread melting this summer, exacerbated in August 2021 by rain.…