In two recent studies, researchers suggest a weakening ocean current system is to blame for a persistent cold spot in the ...

Climate & Environment Greenland ice sheet set to raise sea levels by nearly a foot, study finds. New research suggests the massive ice sheet is already set to lose more than 3 percent of its mass ...

Greenland's ice sheet currently spans over 1.7 ... Dr. Michele Petrini of Norway's Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research and colleagues assessed the surface mass balance of Greenland's ice sheet, ...

Greenland's ice sheet loses about 193 square kilometers of ice per year, researchers found. Study co-author Chad Greene and his colleagues said they qualified the extent of calving, which ...

Overall, the total area of ice loss in the past 30 years is slightly greater than the size of Massachusetts and represents about 1.6% of Greenland’s total ice and glacier cover.

But the giant icy mass is melting, and fast. Researchers found in 2020 that the ice sheet is on track to melt four times faster than at any point in thousands of years, saying that the planet has ...

The Greenland ice sheet is one of more than a dozen theoretical climate tipping points — rapid, ... It has lost mass every year since 1998, Moon said.

An analysis suggests that ice geometry and flow speeds control how meltwater affects the slipperiness of the bed beneath the Greenland ice sheet. Changes in these conditions could therefore ...

“Current consensus estimates of ice-sheet mass balance have underestimated recent mass loss from Greenland by as much as 20%,” the study’s authors wrote. In recent decades, almost every ...

When the ice sheet surface is lowered by melting at a rate outweighing the uplift of the landscape due to glacial isostatic adjustment, then the Greenland ice sheet mass tips from approximately 50 ...