The remote and often unforgiving surface of Greenland’s ice sheet has long been a subject of intrigue for scientists. What lies beneath the thick layers of snow and ice has been largely a mystery, ...

The wind, having tumbled down 4,000 feet of elevation from the domed summit of the ice sheet hundreds of miles to the west, charged over the surface in wavelike pulses. The GreenDrill site sat on ...

Mapping cracks. In a new study, my colleagues and I mapped crevasses across the entirety of the Greenland ice sheet in 2016 and 2021.To do this, we used the "ArcticDEM": three-dimensional surface ...

At 656,000 square miles, the Greenland ice sheet currently covers around 80% of the island territory.To put that into perspective, it's about three times the size of Texas. Drill dome and camp for ...

Greenland's ice sheet currently spans over 1.7 million square kilometers and is the largest freshwater reservoir in the northern hemisphere. The ice sheet has already lost over a trillion tonnes ...

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 ...

About 80 percent of Greenland is armored in a continuous sheet of ice, three times the area of Texas. But it hasn’t always been that way. At various points in Earth’s past, much of the island ...

New research reveals Greenland ice melt will cause a a 274 millimeter rise in sea levels — though an even bigger 700-plus millimeter rise could occur in a high-warming scenario.

What’s old is new again. NASA scientists discovered an underground “city” buried 100 feet beneath the ice of Greenland. Researchers were shocked when their advanced radar technology picked ...

The ice cores are used to make a chart of proxy temperatures for Greenland running from the year 1000 to 2011. It shows temperatures gently sloping cooler for the first 800 years, then wiggling up ...