Scientists Discover a Teeming World of Life at the Ice Cap
Greenland’s ice is abundant with life, both above and below its surface. Until recently, science was unaware of the existence of certain microscopic organisms living…
Greenland’s ice is abundant with life, both above and below its surface. Until recently, science was unaware of the existence of certain microscopic organisms living…
The past decade has seen the worst years for polar ice sheet melting, with 2019 being the record year. Ice sheet melting now accounts for…
Once we emit about 1000 gigatons of carbon, much of the massive ice sheet will melt irreversibly. We’ve emitted 500 gigatons so far. The Greenland…
The Liverpool Land peninsula, on the east coast of Greenland, is featured in this satellite image from the European Space Agency’s Copernicus Sentinel-2. The peninsula is…
A study published in Nature Communications today (February 14) by an international team of scientists shows that an irreversible loss of the West Antarctic and…
A recent scientific study, based on updated ice core data, reveals that the high temperatures in central and northern Greenland are unprecedented when compared to…
Greenland’s fjords harbor a unique group of polar bears that rely on glacial ice, a NASA-funded research study reported on June 16, 2022, in the…
Parallel ice ridges, a common feature on Jupiter’s moon Europa, are found on Greenland’s ice sheet – and could bode well for Europa’s potential habitability….
Danish and Swedish researchers have dated the enormous Hiawatha impact crater, a 31 km-wide (19 mi-wide) meteorite crater buried under a kilometer (0.6 miles) of…
The world’s second-largest ice sheet is melting from the bottom up – and generating huge amounts of heat from hydropower. Researchers have observed extremely high…
To learn how ocean water is melting glaciers, NASA’s Oceans Melting Greenland mission extensively surveyed the coastline of the world’s largest island. The most important…
The Kangerlussuaq Glacier is rapidly retreating, as depicted in Sentinel-1 radar images. Accelerated melting, intensified by global warming, contributes to rising sea levels and…
Global warming has caused extreme ice melting events in Greenland to become more frequent and intense over the past 40 years, raising sea levels and…
Global warming has caused extreme ice melting events in Greenland to become more frequent and more intense over the past 40 years according to new…
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…
Greenland may be best known for its enormous continental-scale ice sheet that soars up to 3,000 meters (10,000 feet) above sea level, whose rapid melting…
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…
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…