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 ...

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 ...

Such rapid warming further increases the already substantial economic and personal risk for those living ... the environmental history of Greenland and its ice sheet, including natural hazards ...

Rapid early Holocene deglaciation of the Laurentide ice sheet. Nature Geoscience 1, 620-624 (2008a). ———— Response of the southern Greenland ice sheet during the last two deglaciations.

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 ...

Researchers found thousands of gallons of waste buried under the ice sheet could resurface by 2100. The US has long sought Greenland, whether access or control, because of its strategic and ...

A new study uncovered algae's role in melting Greenland ice A groundbreaking study has revealed that, in addition to these activities, algae also play a crucial role in the melting of the ...

A new study analyzes the possibility of such a collapse by creating models surrounding four of these pillars: the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, the Greenland Ice Sheet, and Amazon Rainforest ...

Norwegian scientists from the University of Bergen and drone specialist Marble have found a way to monitor Greenland's ice sheet, which is under severe strain and threatened by increasing melting ...

In 1967, the U.S. decommissioned a military base that had been constructed underneath the Greenland Ice Sheet. In doing so, the military removed a portable nuclear reactor that had helped power ...