Greenland’s bedrock is shifting, rising, and sliding northwest as ancient and modern ice loss reshape the island beneath the ...
Ice sheets are melting, causing the tectonic plates to shift and setting Greenland adrift. According to researchers, Greenland is expanding and contracting at the same time, much like the rest of the ...
Greenland is on the move, literally. New satellite data is showing that the world’s largest island isn’t just melting under ...
Talk about a chilling effect. A small settlement in Greenland is holding its collective breath as an iceberg of titanic proportions drifts dangerously close to shore — and residents’ homes. For days ...
One of the buzziest technologies in modern science may be running right under your feet. Fiber optic cables bring you the internet as data-rich pulses of light, but they also detect signals from the ...
For most of us, first-hand knowledge of Greenland is probably limited to flying over it en route to North America. It's likely that you've heard more about it over the last few months than in the rest ...
Zombie ice from the massive Greenland ice sheet will eventually raise global sea level by at least 10 inches (27 centimeters) on its own, according to a study released Monday. Zombie or doomed ice is ...
Scientists were caught by surprise after discovering a massive flood of subglacial lakewater burst through Greenland’s ice sheet, spilling copious amounts of water across its surface. As detailed in a ...
As Greenland’s glaciers melt, water usually drains to the bedrock below before flowing out to the ocean. But in 2014, a huge torrent of meltwater from a subglacial lake burst out of the surface of the ...
In The Most Dangerous Kayak Expedition on Earth, a pair of adventurers set out to explore the underside of Greenlandic icebergs. While scientists are still working on a unit with which to objectively ...
Like the inverse of the mythical butterfly flapping its wings in China, an ice core extracted from Greenland can reveal the rise and fall of societies in European antiquity. A new study took ice cores ...