Helheim Glacier is the fastest flowing glacier along Greenland’s eastern edge. Scientists are studying it in hopes of improving projections of future sea level rise. Helheim — named after the ...

The loss of ice from Greenland doubled between 1996 and 2005, as its glaciers flowed faster into the ocean in response to a generally warmer climate, according to a NASA/University of Kansas study ...

Look at the spine of Greenland and you will see the mega-canyon that runs northwards towards another of the territory's big iceberg exporters - Petermann Glacier. In studying the hidden landscape ...

“That will give us a sense of what the future might hold for future ice loss from Greenland.” The researchers tracked changes in 207 glaciers in Greenland (constituting 90 percent of the ice ...

Greenland’s rate of glacier retreat has doubled over the last 20 years, reveals a new report. The latest study comes just days after different research showed a third of Greenland's ice sheet ...

Last September, a melting glacier collapsed, sending the mountaintop it propped up careening into the Dickson Fjord in East Greenland. The impact created a 650-foot tall tsunami — twice as tall ...

The glacier is the focus of a new mission led by The University of Texas at Austin to explore the uncharted and unpredictable underwater face of Greenland's glaciers. Advanced Search Home ...

Northeast Greenland is home to the 79° N Glacier—the country's largest floating glacier tongue, but also one seriously threatened by global warming. Warm water from the Atlantic is melting it ...

It started with a melting glacier that set off a huge ... Seismologists traced the signal to eastern Greenland, but couldn’t pin down a specific location. So they contacted colleagues in Denmark ...

Greenland is a bit of a mystery to many people. Its island neighbor, Iceland, gets most of the attention, and not everyone knows that both countries have similarly stunning landscapes, massive ...

Cooling in the subsurface waters beneath Greenland’s Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden Glacier (79NG) from 2018 to 2021 was driven by European atmospheric blocking, which forced changes in the large-scale ...