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 ...
A new study finds that melting ice in Greenland over the past three decades has led to a dramatic increase in vegetated land ...
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 ...
The Polar Portal website has reported that the Greenland ice sheet recent “massive melting event” released enough mass to cover the state of Florida with 5 centimeters of water. According to ...
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 ...
Three young Greenlanders witnessing the ice caps melting have expressed worry about the impact that would make on other countries. Scientists researching the Greenland ice sheet say this summer ...
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 ...
Between eight and 14 feet but can reach up to 23 feet Using this method, scientists discovered Greenland sharks have a life expectancy of at least 272 years and could reach 392, give or take about ...
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 ...