Tag: Greenland
A Half-Century of Loss in Northwest Greenland
A pair of satellite images acquired almost 50 years apart reveals striking changes to the glaciers and ice caps in northwest Greenland. A pair of…
Greenland Ice Sheet May Halve in Volume By Year 3000
One of the many effects of global warming is sea-level rise, to which the melting and retreat of the Earth’s ice sheets and glaciers…
Warming Seas Are Accelerating Greenland’s Glacier Retreat
Scientists with NASA’s Oceans Melting Greenland mission are probing deep below the island’s warming coastal waters to help us better predict the rising seas of…
Pandemic Delays, But Doesn’t Slow, Ice Melt Research in Greenland
Despite racing against impending harsh weather conditions, a red and white World War II aircraft flew slowly and steadily over the icy waters surrounding Greenland…
Greenland’s ice sheet saw record mass loss in 2019, study finds
Greenland’s ice sheet lost a record amount of mass last year, according to a study published on Thursday, a finding that could prompt scientists to…
’Canary in the coal mine’: Greenland ice has shrunk beyond return, study finds by Reuters
Greenland’s ice sheet may have shrunk past the point of return, with the ice likely to melt away no matter how quickly the world reduces…
US announces millions in aid for resource-rich Greenland
The US has announced a $12.1m (£10m) aid package for mineral-rich Greenland – a move welcomed by the Danish territory’s government. This year the US…
Climate change: Blue skies pushed Greenland ’into the red’
While high temperatures were critical to the melting seen in Greenland last year, scientists say that clear blue skies also played a key role. In…
Greenland ice sheet meltwater can flow in winter, too
Liquid meltwater can sometimes flow deep below the Greenland Ice Sheet in winter, not just in the summer, according to CIRES-led work published in the…
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