Greenland is larger than any American state, but 80% of it is buried beneath an ice sheet. Almost 90% of the nearly 60,000 ...

Left: Map showing areas of Greenland undergoing surface melt on 24 July 2022 and line graph showing the percentage of ice sheet area seeing surface melt on each day of 2022 (blue line), ending on 24 ...

The technology uses a mix of fiber-optic cables and laser pulses to gain precise temperature readings from the surface of the Greenland Ice Sheet all the way down to the bottom, offering a clearer ...

Greenland’s vast ice sheet, a critical component of Earth’s climate system, is melting at a pace that has alarmed scientists and policymakers alike. The sheer scale of ice loss in recent years ...

A research plane flies over the Greenland ice sheet. A team of NASA scientists deploys advanced radar technology to map the ice dimensionally. Images of an abandoned military station emerge ...

A study published Aug. 29, 2022, demonstrates—for the first time—that Greenland's ice sheet is now so out of balance with prevailing Arctic climate that it no longer can sustain its current size.

New research published Tuesday says that because of global warming, Greenland’s ice sheet is melting fast – and being replaced by vegetation. Parts of Greenland are becoming green again for ...

It's getting hotter in Greenland, and last weekend temperatures rose enough to cause 18 billion tons of the country's ice sheet to melt over three days. Scientists have warned about the ...

The findings in the journal Nature Climate Change project that it is now inevitable that 3.3 percent of the Greenland ice sheet will melt — equal to 110 trillion tons of ice, the researchers said.

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During one of the warm periods within the last 1.1 million years, the center, not just the edges, of Greenland's massive ice sheet melted away, new research has found, giving way to a dry and ...