It's certainly not a small island: It's about three times the size of Texas. But on most maps, Greenland looks almost as big ...

But in March 2022, an intense atmospheric river delivered 16 billion tons of snow to Greenland. That was enough snow to offset the sheet's annual ice loss by 8%, the study reports.

Greenland’s ice sheet is the second-largest ice cap on Earth, and because of the planet’s rising temperatures, it’s melting. Human-induced climate change is intensifying atmospheric rivers ...

Glaciologist Alun Hubbard holds up part of a 15-meter-long ice core, collected in southeastern Greenland to study how atmospheric rivers impact the Greenland Ice Sheet. The visible divide between ...