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Researchers find giant viruses that may regulate algae growth, potentially reducing ice melt.
It's formed by soil and rock left behind by glaciers.
Another worrying sign of the climate crisis
Greenland is much hotter than normally.
It raises the possibility that other melting glaciers are behaving the same way.
Researchers find million-year-old plants in frozen ice core.
That’s a high margin of error.
Sounds like a long time, but we have our work cut out for ourselves.
The lake bed could be millions of years old, formed at a time when Greenland was still green.
This is enough to raise global sea levels 2.2 millimeters in two months.
This rate is in line with the worst-case scenario set by UN climate experts.
On current trends, Greenland ice melting will cause 100 million people to be flooded each year by 2100.
Investment idea: pool air mattresses.
Good thing we didn't call it Iceland, right?!
"Our results show a clear link in the timing of animal recovery and the recovery of Earth systems."
Our planet has received its fair share of visitors along the years. This one has been hiding under Greenland's thick ice.
In the past 20 years, Greenland's ice sheet has been melting at six-fold the rate seen before the Industrial Revolution.
A meteorite might have slammed into the island as early as 12,000 years ago.
The debate is far from over, though.
Turns out a one-trick economy never lasts long.
The deal was made possible by the efforts of the Atlantic Salmon Federation and North Atlantic Salmon Fund.
Let's hope this landscape is never in the open.
The consequences are important for ecosystem health.
A rather unexpected effect of climate change.
It's a feedback loop on steroids.
The cost of non-action could be dramatic by the end of the century.
The dads really pull through for these chicks.
The Vikings were late a million years. Back then this was 'really' Greenland.
Pushing the boundaries of life farther in time than ever before.
Knowing how much water gets melted into the oceans will help us estimate the impact of rising sea levels.
A massive portion of the Greenland ice sheet has started to melt, taking researchers by surprise. The vast region is experiencing a freakishly early spring thaw, with 12% of Greenland’s ice melting on Monday, according to the Danish Meteorological Institute. “We had to check that our models were still working properly,”6 Peter Langen, climate scientist at […]
While the climate talks in Paris are carrying on in full force, it’s important to keep in mind that most of climate change isn’t actually affecting the ones causing it. The polar regions, the south Pacific and small islands are the ones suffering the most. The governments of Nunavut (Canada) and Greenland (Denmark) and the Inuit […]
Geoscientists have finally unraveled one of Greenland's long-standing mysteries: how billions of gallons of water can drain in a matter of hours. They believe that this might also help us better understand how sea levels will rise in the future.
Using satellite imagery, scientists have discovered two new subglacial lakes under Greenland's ice sheet bringing the total number to four. The discovery is not well met, however. These lakes are already drained, signaling that climate change is making its way beneath the Greenland ice sheet. The discovery suggests subglacial lakes could increase the sensitivity of ice to climatic change, further accelerating ice melt which can lead to catastrophic floods.
The former popular landscape was an expanse of warped shapes, out of which some were as tall as a Manhattan skyscraper, and it was discovered by an ice-penetration radar loaded aboard NASA survey flights. According to the scientists who made the discovery, this could deepen the level of understanding concerning the way in which the […]
Geophysical data from Greenland have revealed the existence of a canyon comparable in size with the Grand Canyon beneath the ice sheet. The canyon has the characteristics of a winding river channel and is over 750 km long and it is often as deep as 800 m. This immense feature is thought to predate humanity […]
A newly published massive study, where some 133 scientists collaborated, revealed that during our planet’s last warm period between ice ages the Greenland ice sheet was still fine and sturdy, despite it was a lot shorter than it is today and caused an increase of a few feet in world sea levels. The authors involved in […]
Scientists from Britain have found a remote ice rift valley, up to one mile deep, under the ice in Antarctica. The rift is similar in size and depth to the Grand Canyon and because it is direct contact with the warming ocean, it’s been found that it has a significant contribution to the unusual ice sheet melting […]
During just four days, from July 8 to July 12, Greenland’s total ice sheet surface subjected to melting rose from 40% to a whooping 97%. Basically the whole Greenland ice sheet was melting during this time frame. According to NASA, a situation similar to this mid-July phenomenon hasn’t been ever recorded in the three decades […]
Researchers at the University of Delaware and the Canadian Ice Service recently reported that an ice island, whose surface is twice that of Manhattan, broke off from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier, one of the two largest glaciers left in Greenland connecting the great Greenland ice sheet with the ocean via a floating ice shelf. The 46-square-mile giant iceberg broke […]
According to Chile’s Centre for Scientific Studies (CECs) it seems like an array of glaciers located in the country’s south have shrunk extensively recently. One such glacier, the Jorge Montt, was documented for a whole year by researchers who observed that its rate of shrinkage is the largest in the country, with snout retreating a […]
There isn’t any news for anyone, I hope, that the Earth is on the heater right now, and as time passes and gas emissions in the atmosphere rise, you should be thinking about ordering that air conditioning faster. Yes, glaciers are melting, and like I mentioned before scientists have projected an increase in sea levels […]
A new bacteria that has been named Herminiimonas glaciei, found in the heart of Greenland, trapped under more than 3 km beneath the ice, probably holds significant clues regarding what life forms may exist on other planets, according to Dr Jennifer Loveland-Curtze and a team of scientists from Pennsylvania State University. They published this finding […]
Recently a study was conducted by a team led by Dr Edward Hanna at the University of Sheffield which demonstrated that recent warm summers have caused the most extreme Greenland ice melting in 50 years. This is yet another proof of the damage caused by global warming and it also helps scientists place recent satellite […]
