By using a fiber-optic cable to detect tiny vibrations a mile below the surface, scientists discovered a surprising way that ...
The great ice streams of the Antarctic and Greenland are like frozen rivers, carrying ice from the massive inland ice sheets ...
New 3D maps of the Greenland Ice Sheet show how huge cracks in the ice that accelerate melting expanded between 2016 and 2021 ...
Greenland’s Ice Sheet is cracking open at the seams, literally falling apart at speeds indicative of the brutal and ...
Crevasses are widening faster as meltwater drives fissures deeper into the ice and lubricates the base of glaciers, ...
The riches thought to lie beneath Greenland's icy terrain have been coveted for more than a century. But how easy are they to ...
An international team of researchers has shown that countless tiny ice quakes take place in one of Greenland's mightiest ice streams. This finding will allow the flowing of the ice sheet and ...
Experts warn that sea levels could rise by seven metres and cause mass destruction if the ice sheet was to melt ...
A new study published this week in Nature Geoscience reveals that in response to climate change, the Greenland Ice Sheet is ...
A new study found on Wednesday that part of Greenland’s ice sheet is thinning further inland ... you end up with a completely different mass change, or sea level projection,” he told Agence ...
Even though 'glacial' is commonly used to describe extremely slow, steady movement, a new study has found that glaciers speed up and slow down on a daily -- even hourly -- basis in response to changes ...
The Greenland Ice Sheet is cracking open more rapidly as it responds to climate change. Dr Tom Chudley, in our Department of Geography, led a new ...