Though they will contribute comparatively little to sea level rise — adding about a foot to global mean sea levels if they melt completely — glaciers outside of Greenland and Antarctica have ...

The vast floating ice platforms of northern Greenland, unrivaled features of the Northern Hemisphere that keep our seas lower by holding back many trillion tons of ice, are in stark decline ...

By converting both types of images into digital maps, the researchers ... as the ocean underneath the floating shelves warms. Three ice shelves in northern Greenland have already collapsed almost ...

The first detailed maps from underneath an ice shelf ... Banner image: An ice shelf and the sea in Greenland. Image by Bob Brewer via Unsplash (Public domain).

This allowed the U.S. to build bases in Greenland. Even without the -70 degree temperatures and 125-mile-per-hour winds that were possible on the ice shelf, the construction of Camp Century sounds ...