Americans initiated a covert operation to construct mobile nuclear missile launch sites beneath Greenland's ice cap. This ...
Greenland is losing ice seven times faster than it was in the 1990s. The assessment comes from the Imbie group - an international team of polar scientists who've reviewed all the satellite ...
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 ...
This story appears in the November 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. Late one quiet November night in the village of Niaqornat, 300 miles above the Arctic Circle on Greenland’s west ...
Melting even occurred at Greenland's coldest and highest place, Summit station. The thawed ice area jumped from 40% of the ice sheet to 97% in just four days from 8 July. Although about half of ...
Greenland is now losing ice seven times faster than it was in the 1990s. The assessment comes from the Imbie group - an international team of polar scientists who've reviewed all the satellite ...
A colossal river of ice, Greenland's Petermann Glacier, is disintegrating with shocking speed. Since the early 2000s, its ...
ILULISSAT, Greenland (CNN)-- From the air, Greenland's ice sheet, the second largest on Earth, appears to be perfectly still. But below the surface, the ice sheet is in constant motion, as ice ...
It’s not easy to photograph climate change, a slow, subtle process that develops over time. But when a glacier breaks up, the images can be breathtaking — and a sobering reminder of the ...
Sea levels are rising more than expected as Greenland’s glaciers melt faster than anticipated, according to research by Shfaqat Abbas Khan at the Technical University of Denmark and his colleagues.
UN weather agency issues ‘red alert’ on climate change after record heat, ice-melt increases in 2023 The U.N. weather agency is sounding a "red alert" about global warming, citing record ...
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 ...