Melting ice, thawing permafrost and crumbling fjord walls are just a few of the risks climate change poses for those living ...

New satellite images show the extreme melting that has taken place on the critical Greenland ice sheet, according to researchers. The sheet is a mass of glacial land ice and is an integral part of ...

The extent and speed of ice moving off the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica into the sea—an important dynamic for ...

New 3D maps of the Greenland Ice Sheet show how huge cracks in the ice that accelerate melting expanded between 2016 and 2021. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Observing Greenland from a helicopter, the main problem is one of comprehending scale. I have thought we were skimming low over the waves of a fjord, before noticing the tiny shadow of a seabird far ...

Observing Greenland from a helicopter, the main problem is one of comprehending scale. I have thought we were skimming low ...

An article published in Nature Geoscience on July 30th, 2025 explores an event that happened in 2014 but was only recently discovered thanks to archives of satellite images. The Greenland Ice Sheet ...

As Greenland’s glaciers melt, water usually drains to the bedrock below before flowing out to the ocean. But in 2014, a huge torrent of meltwater from a subglacial lake burst out of the surface of the ...

Ships float in Aasiaat’s harbor. Vaido Otsar via Wikipedia under CC By-SA 4.0 For the past four summers, a research team from Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory has loaded into a ...

ILULISSAT, GREENLAND - JULY 15: Visitors look out at melting icebergs crowding the Ilulissat Icefjord on July 15, 2024 near Ilulissat, Greenland. The Ilulissat Icefjord is approximately 60km long and ...