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Interest in Greenland’s minerals is soaring, driven in part by Trump, who has said the U.S. must “get” the island. But the ...
A prolonged period of extensive ice sheet melting from roughly July 7 to July 20 tipped the 2025 melt season to above the ...
If the entire Greenland ice sheet melted, global sea levels would rise by about 24 feet. The NEGIS is how a good deal of that planet-altering flood would enter the sea.
Greenland is renowned for its substantial ice sheet. It appears on satellite maps as a massive, immobile, frozen block. But a surprising discovery has shaken that image and raised serious concerns for ...
The Greenland Ice Sheet has once again taken on a surreal summer appearance, this time captured in striking detail by NASA’s ...
Researchers from Western Washington University study dark zones on the Greenland ice sheet to understand sea level rise.
Like the inverse of a butterfly flapping its wings in China, ice cores extracted in Greenland show the rise and fall of ...
An aerial view of meltwater lakes formed at the Russell Glacier front, part of the Greenland ice sheet in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, on Aug. 16, 2022.
When it comes to Arctic apex predators, the polar bear is the first animal that typically comes to mind. It’s a top predator, ...
Greenland's ice sheet melted 17 times faster than the past average during a May heatwave that also hit Iceland, the scientific network World Weather Attribution (WWA) said in a report Wednesday.
The Greenland ice sheet and other ice covering the Arctic can influence where and when wind blows, how much water content the wind has and whether precipitation falls as rain or snow.
In two recent studies, researchers suggest a weakening ocean current system is to blame for a persistent cold spot in the ...