NASA's Landsats captured views of a Swiss glacier 40 years apart, showing how a warming world has reduced its footprint.

Melting ice sheet About 125,000 years ago, when Earth was warmer than preindustrial levels, Greenland was covered by a significantly smaller ice sheet, and the sea level was as much as 19 feet ...

Greenland's ice sheet currently spans over 1.7 million square kilometers and is the largest freshwater reservoir in the northern hemisphere. The ice sheet has already lost over a trillion tonnes ...

Greenland's ice is melting, opening new sea routes and yielding easier access to prized natural resources, writes Fred Hewett. The island has become a bellwether of global disruption driven by climate ...

The US military built several bases and sites across Greenland's ice sheet ... three years after Camp Century was built. The facility continued to operate at a limited capacity before it was ...

This is what’s happening as the Greenland Ice Sheet shrinks.” The more than 656,000-mile sheet — an area about three times the size of Texas — is nearly two miles thick, and contains about ...

High over the frozen surface of Greenland, a new tool is rewriting ... enough water being removed from the atmosphere before it reached the ice sheet. When the team adjusted the model using ...

Norwegian scientists from the University of Bergen and drone specialist Marble have found a way to monitor Greenland's ice sheet ... weather conditions than before. Accordingly, improvements ...

I am a geoscientist who studies the environmental history of Greenland and its ice sheet, including natural hazards and climate change. That knowledge is essential for understanding the risks that ...

GREENLAND, AS YOU MAY KNOW, IS NEITHER NOT GREEN AND NOT REALLY LAND, BUT RATHER COVERED BY THE SECOND LARGEST BODY OF ICE IN THE WORLD, SECOND ONLY TO THE ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET. BUT THE ICE IS MELTING.

For the first time, researchers have collected detailed measurements of water vapor high above the surface of the Greenland ice sheet. Their research, aided by a custom-designed drone, could help ...