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Accelerated melt. Credit: TiPES/HP An analysis of the melt situation on the Central-Western Greenland ice sheet reveals clear signs of tipping. Data from the Jakobshavn…
In 2012, an extreme melt season in Greenland created a refrozen ice layer in the compacting snow near the surface of the ice sheet. In…
During 2019 field tests near Greenland’s Summit Station, a high-elevation remote observing station, the WATSON instrument is put through its paces to seek out signs…
At the fringes of the Greenland Ice Sheet, where glaciers are constantly melting, water rushes everywhere through an intricate system of lakes and streams that…
Lakes form on the surface of the Greenland ice sheet each summer as the weather warms. They exist for weeks or months but can drain…
Photo of Greenland’s Ice sheet. Credit: Joshua Brown, University of Vermont For the first time ever, researchers have found fossils under Greenland’s ice sheet that…
To measure water depth and salinity, the OMG project dropped probes by plane into fjords along Greenland’s coast. Shown here is one such fjord in…
A research team – the first to carry out a survey of global ice loss using satellite data – has discovered that the rate at…
Warming seas are accelerating the retreat of Greenland’s coastal glaciers. Sverdrup Glacier in northwest Greenland is pretty average. It is a textbook example of the…
1985 – 2015 A recent study of Greenland’s ice sheet found that glaciers are retreating in nearly every sector of the island, while also undergoing…
As glaciers flow outward from the Greenland Ice Sheet, what lies beneath them offers clues to their role in future ice thinning and sea-level rise…
A seismic station on the Greenland Ice Sheet installed by authors. Snow accumulation in one year is ~1.5 m, and the solar panels are buried…
The jagged terrain of Greenland’s mountains is protecting some of the island’s outlet glaciers from warm coastal waters, according to a team of researchers that…
University of Arkansas geosciences associate professor Matt Covington flies a drone on the Greenland ice sheet. Credit: Jason Gulley Researchers climbed into moulins, which drain…
The largely featureless surface of the Greenland ice sheet, as seen from the window of a P3 aircraft carrying geophysical instruments aimed at detecting geologic…
Infographic describing the study’s findings. Credit: Bob Wilder / University at Buffalo The research places the ice sheet’s modern decline in historical context, providing a…
This aerial photograph shows fast-moving meltwater rivers flowing across the Greenland Ice Sheet, a region that, combined with Antarctic meltwater and thermal expansion, accounts for…
A deep-sea soft coral garden habitat has been discovered in Greenlandic waters by scientists. Credit: UCL A deep-sea soft coral garden habitat has been discovered…
Northwest Greenland is featured in this icy image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission. Sea ice and icebergs can be seen in the Nares Strait…