Greenland – Exploring the World’s Largest Island From Space
Northwest Greenland is featured in this icy image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission. Lying in the North Atlantic Ocean, Greenland is the world’s largest…
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NASA’s ICESat-2 Mission Maps 16 Years of Melting Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets
Using the most advanced Earth-observing laser instrument NASA has ever flown in space, a team of scientists led by the University of Washington has made…
16 Years of Ice Sheet Loss Mapped by Most Advanced Earth-Observing Laser NASA Has Ever Flown in Space
Ice loss from Antarctica and Greenland account for roughly a half-inch of sea level rise between 2003 and 2019. Using the most advanced Earth-observing laser…
Record Greenland Ice Loss in 2019 Driven by Unusually Clear Skies
Last year was one of the worst years on record for the Greenland ice sheet, which shrunk by hundreds of billions of tons. According to…
NASA Satellites Track How Quickly the Poles Are Melting – Greenland Lost 600 Billion Tons of Ice in 2 Months
GRACE, GRACE-FO Satellite Data Track Ice Loss at the Poles Greenland and Antarctica are melting — but how quickly and which areas are most affected?…
6.4 Trillion Tons of Ice Lost: Antarctica, Greenland Melting Six Times Faster Than in the 1990s
The two regions have lost 6.4 trillion tons of ice in three decades; unabated, this rate of melting could cause flooding that affects hundreds of…
Worst-Case Climate Change Scenario: Greenland and Antarctica Losing Ice 6x Faster Than Expected
According to a new report, Greenland and Antarctica are losing ice six times faster than in the 1990s – currently on track with the Intergovernmental…
New Insights Into Dark Zone at the Margins of the Greenland Ice Sheet
New research led by scientists from the University of Bristol has revealed new insights into how the microscopic algae that thrives along the edge of…
Greenland Losing Ice 7 Times Faster Than in 1990s – Lost 3.8 Trillion Metric Tons of Ice Since 1992
Greenland is losing ice seven times faster than in the 1990s and is tracking the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s high-end climate warming scenario, which…
World’s Second-Largest Ice Sheet Becoming More Unstable As It Fractures in Shock Drone Images
Drone images show Greenland ice sheet becoming more unstable as it fractures. The world’s second-largest ice sheet, and the single largest contributor to global sea-level…
NASA’s OMG Mission Raises Plenty of New Questions
Only seven months after NASA’s Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) mission wrapped its last field campaign on the world’s largest island, an OMG crew is back…
NASA Discovers a Massive Crater Under Greenland Ice
An international team of researchers, including a NASA glaciologist, has discovered a large meteorite impact crater hiding beneath more than a half-mile of ice in…
Image of an Icy Heart for Valentine’s Day
The year 2017 was a record-breaking one for Operation IceBridge, NASA’s aerial survey of the state of polar ice. For the first time in the…
Machine Learning Helps Predict the Geothermal Heat Flux in Greenland
A paper appearing in Geophysical Research Letters uses machine learning to craft an improved model for understanding geothermal heat flux — heat emanating from the…
Researchers Provide New Insights about Greenland’s Melting Ice Sheet
A UCLA-led team was the first to measure Greenland’s melting glaciers from the top of the ice sheet. Their discoveries could help scientists better predict…
NASA Scientists Reveal a New Mode of Ice Loss in Greenland
A new NASA study published in Geophysical Research Letters reveals that during Greenland’s hottest summers on record, 2010 and 2012, the ice in Rink Glacier…
New NASA Research Identifies Pathway for Greenland Meltwater to Reach Ocean
New NASA research found that large crevasses provide aquifer water upstream of Greenland’s Helheim Glacier with a clear escape to the ocean. This discovery helps…
New Research Shows Greenland Ice Sheet Movement is Decreasing Despite Warming
A newly published study from the University of Edinburgh shows that the movement of the southwest portion of the Greenland Ice Sheet that terminates on…