There could be global consequences. Scientists issue grave warning over concerning discovery under massive ice shelf: 'We may see the devastating consequences' first appeared on The Cool Down.

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 ...

Greenland’s ice is being lost to global warming at alarming levels and is responsible for rising sea levels. Its thawing ...

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).

A mysterious crack has been spreading across a giant Greenland glacier, and it's raising concerns that part of the floating ice shelf could splinter off into the ocean. That could be bad.

The fossils were extracted in 1993 from about 2 miles beneath the ice shelf in Northwest Greenland, about 100 miles from the ice margin. Mark Twickler Paul Bierman, professor of natural resources ...

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 ...