Unusual Snowfall in Greenland – “A Dramatic End to a Season of Extreme Events”
The remnants of Hurricane Larry dropped abundant snowfall on Greenland just as the summer melt season was coming to an end. Hurricanes are known for…
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A Recent Reversal Discovered in the Response of Greenland’s Ice Caps to Climate Change
Greenland may be best known for its enormous continental scale ice sheet that soars up to 3,000 meters above sea level, whose rapid melting is…
Water Blisters Trapped Beneath Greenland’s Thick Ice Sheet Could Provide Critical Hydrological Insight
Water “blisters” trapped beneath the thick interior of Greenland’s ice sheet could provide critical insight into the hydrological network coursing deep below Earth’s second largest…
Rain and Warmth Trigger Intense Melting in Greenland
The island’s vast ice sheet underwent multiple bouts of widespread melting this summer, exacerbated in August 2021 by rain. The Greenland Ice Sheet underwent two…
Surprisingly High Levels of Toxic Mercury Discovered in Greenland Glacial Meltwaters
New research from Florida State University shows that concentrations of the toxic element mercury in rivers and fjords connected to the Greenland Ice Sheet are…
Clear Signs That Part of the Greenland Ice Sheet Is Close to a Tipping Point
An analysis of the melt situation on the Central-Western Greenland ice sheet reveals clear signs of tipping. Data from the Jakobshavn drainage basin of the…
Can Extreme Melt Destabilize Ice Sheets? A Continental-Scale Picture
Nearly a decade ago, global news outlets reported vast ice melt in the Arctic as sapphire lakes glimmered across the previously frozen Greenland Ice Sheet,…
NASA Astrobiology: Probing for Life in the Icy Crusts of Ocean Worlds
A technique for scanning Mars rocks for microscopic fossils of ancient life is also being developed to hunt for microbes in the deep ice of…
What a Glacial River Reveals About the Greenland Ice Sheet and Global Sea Level Rise
With data from a 2016 expedition, scientists supported by NASA are shedding more light into the complex processes under the Greenland Ice Sheet that control…
Thick Sea-Ice Warms Greenland Fjords
A new study shows that thick sea-ice can increase the sensitivity of Greenlandic fjords to climate warming. Understanding the factors that control how fast glaciers…
Satellite Data Shows Lakes on Greenland Ice Sheet Can Drain Huge Amounts of Water, Even in Winter
Using satellite data to ‘see in the dark’, researchers have shown for the first time that lakes on the Greenland Ice Sheet drain during winter,…
Intact Plant Fossils Discovered Beneath Greenland’s Ice Sheet After Lucky Find of Ice Cores Drilled by U.S. Military in 1966
For the first time ever, researchers have found fossils under Greenland’s ice sheet that are so large and well preserved that they can be seen…
Complex Behavior of a Turbulent Plume at the Calving Front of a Greenlandic Glacier
For the first time, scientists have succeeded in continuous monitoring of a subglacial discharge plume, providing a deeper understanding of the glacier-fjord environment. As marine-terminating…
Scientists Stunned to Discover Plants Beneath Mile-Deep Greenland Ice – Why This Spells Trouble
Long-lost ice core provides direct evidence that giant ice sheet melted off within the last million years and is highly vulnerable to a warming climate….
Oops! The “World’s Oldest Meteorite Impact Crater” Isn’t an Impact Crater After All
Several years after scientists discovered what was considered the oldest crater a meteorite made on the planet, another team found it’s actually the result of…
NASA’s OMG: Warming Seas Are Accelerating Greenland’s Glacier Retreat
Scientists with NASA’s Oceans Melting Greenland mission are probing deep below the island’s warming coastal waters to help us better predict the rising seas of…
Our Planet Is Losing Ice at Record Rate – In Line With the Worst-Case Climate Warming Scenarios
A research team – the first to carry out a survey of global ice loss using satellite data – has discovered that the rate at…
Warming Seas Are Undercutting Sverdrup Glacier in Northwest Greenland
Warming seas are accelerating the retreat of Greenland’s coastal glaciers. Sverdrup Glacier in northwest Greenland is pretty average. It is a textbook example of the…