Greenland is renowned for its substantial ice sheet. It appears on satellite maps as a massive, immobile, frozen block. But a ...

Greenland’s vast ice sheet, a critical component of Earth’s climate system, is melting at a pace that has alarmed scientists and policymakers alike. The sheer scale of ice loss in recent years ...

Greenland’s ice-covered landscape looks like an immovable block on satellite maps. Yet the story beneath its center suggests ...

The left map illustrates the cumulative melt days on the Greenland Ice Sheet for the 2025 melt season through June 30. The ...

Greenland’s Ice Sheet Collapse Could Be Closer Than We Think The collapse of the world’s second-largest ice sheet would drown cities worldwide. Is that ice more vulnerable than we know?

Scientists Pinpoint ‘Tipping Point’ for Greenland’s Melting Ice Sheet The vast landmass is melting quickly due to climate change, and may rapidly cause the complete loss of the island's ice.

New satellite images show the extreme melting that has taken place on the critical Greenland ice sheet, according to researchers. The sheet is a mass of glacial land ice and is an integral part of ...

Crevasses play an integral part in the life cycle of glaciers, and as they grow they hold the potential to further accelerate ice-sheet loss.

A new large-scale study of crevasses on the Greenland Ice Sheet shows that those cracks are widening faster as the climate warms, which is likely to speed ice loss and global sea level rise ...

Ice loss in Greenland is already large, irreversible, and greatly accelerated after centuries of near stability. Though a tipping point for future ice loss has already been crossed, the pace of this ...

The second reason is that, as its ice sheet diminishes, Greenland’s strategic mineral and fossil fuel resources become less difficult to access.

As a NASA science flight was flying over the Greenland ice sheet this spring, a surprise popped up on a specialty radar: a hidden Cold War city more than 100 feet beneath the ice. In April 2024, a ...