New research charts the history of the Greenland Ice Sheet and its impact on global sea levels throughout history to present day. Writing in the journal Nature Geoscience the study provides the first ...

A Kiwi scientist has been drilling into millions of years worth of sediment far below the rapidly-melting Greenland ice sheet ...

The interior hasn't changed a lot, however." For comparison, the Antarctic ice sheet has a volume of 26.5 million cu km Greenland is currently losing about 260 billion tonnes of ice to the ocean ...

The Greenland ice sheet (Danish: Grønlands indlandsis, Greenlandic: Sermersuaq) is a vast body of ice covering 1,710,000 square kilometres (660,000 sq mi), roughly 79% of the surface of Greenland. It ...

Hidden meltwater within Greenland’s Ice Sheet is challenging current climate models and reshaping sea-level rise predictions.

A recent study reveals a surprising finding: a significant amount of meltwater is temporarily retained within the Greenland ...

This is one of thousands of giant sinkholes, or moulins, in Greenland where water is draining through the ice sheet into the ocean. Meltwater from Greenland is the largest current contributor to ...

A new study published in Nature unveils a surprising discovery: a substantial amount of meltwater is temporarily stored ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Our planet’s ice sheets are melting. The glaciers found in Greenland and the Arctic ...

One of the leading proponents of this sea level spike includes the ice sheet that covers the island country of Greenland. This sheet covers about 17 lakh square kilometres of land in the Arctic.

Greenland's government wants Denmark to pay for cleanup at a nuclear waste site under the island's melting ice sheet. A vast pit of toxic waste buried in the Greenland ice sheet is threatening ...

A new study unveils a surprising discovery: a substantial amount of meltwater is temporarily stored within the Greenland Ice Sheet during summer months. For the first time, an international group ...