On June 12th 712,000 square kilometres of the ice-sheet (over 40% of the total) were melting. This is well outside the norm for the past 40 years (see chart). Several factors are to blame.

Greenland ice sheet loses 11 billion tons of water in one day amid historic heat. ... While that melt was shocking, it pales in comparison to the one on Wednesday, as evident in the chart above.

New research charts the history of the Greenland Ice Sheet and its impact on global sea levels throughout history to present day. Scientists from The University of Manchester, Queen’s University ...

What we do know is that the ice cores tell us to expect even more melting snow flowing off Greenland in the coming years as temperatures continue to climb. Nature , 2018. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018 ...

In the 1980s and 1990s, Greenland’s ice maintained a rough equilibrium. Each year the sheet lost some 400bn tonnes of ice in the summer—both by ice and snow melting on the surface, and the ...

Located across the middle of the vast Greenland ice sheet are a network of 16 climate stations, which track winds, snowfall accumulations, melting of snow and ice, sunlight and temperatures. This ...

Hoerhold and outside scientists said the new warming data are bad news because Greenland’s ice sheet is melting. In fact, the study ends with data from 2011 and the next year had a record melt ...

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.

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 ...

A sharp spike in Greenland temperatures since 1995 showed the giant northern island 2.7 degrees (1.5 degrees Celsius) hotter than its 20th-century average, the warmest in more than 1,000 years ...