The Greenland Ice Sheet is the largest ice sheet in the Northern Hemisphere, covering approximately 80% of Greenland's landmass. Meltwater from the Greenland Ice Sheet is already the biggest global ...

Researchers have generated the first dataset of water flow beneath the entire Antarctic Ice Sheet, which will lead to more ...

Greenland's ice sheet currently spans over 1.7 million square kilometers and is the largest freshwater reservoir in the ...

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

Scientists have, for the first time, observed a massive glacial lake outburst in East Greenland, releasing over 3,000 billion ...

Scientists have documented an unprecedented glacial flood in East Greenland, where an estimated 3,000 billion liters of meltwater surged through the ice in a matter of weeks. This catastrophic ...

Until now, they have based these simulations on an assumption that the ice streams flow slowly but steadily into the sea like thick honey. However, satellite measurements ... before being deposited on ...

Back in Nuuk, Lynge turns to the map once more to reflect on how Greenland became caught up in a much bigger game. He refers to the 1946 attempt by the US to buy Greenland from Denmark, under which ...

For the first time, an international team of researchers has shown that countless tiny ice quakes take place in one of ...

The ice extent in January was down 498,000 square miles compared to the 1981 to 2010 average. That means the Arctic is now ...

The world's second biggest body of ice - the Greenland Ice Sheet - is cracking open quicker than scientists had previously thought. That's according to new research by a team of scientists, led by Dr ...

In just five years, 930 million cubic meters of crevasses opened up in the Greenland ice sheet, equivalent to adding a crack the size of the Great ...