The Greenland Ice Sheet is of major concern to scientists the world over in a world that is warming rapidly and causing massive ice melt to occur. However, recent research … [Read full article]
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Huge Greenland Glacier Ice Sheet Breaks Off… Another One
I’m sure this is not what global warming naysayers want to hear, but an iceberg about twice the size of Manhattan has just broken off of a Greenland glacier, … [Read full article]
Oldest Known Impact Crater Discovered in Greenland
A massive 100 kilometre-wide crater has been discovered in Greenland and redefined the record books by being the remains of an impact that is a full billion years earlier … [Read full article]
Long Lost Photos Reveal Precious Data About Greenland's Glacier History
Considering that we didn’t start getting satellites up into the atmosphere until the 1970s, it comes as no surprise that recently discovered photographs from the 1930s depicting Greenland’s glaciers … [Read full article]
Methane Seeping Up from New Sources in Alaska
Researchers from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks have found large measures of geologic methane seeping up the edges of the thawing permafrost and receding glaciers in Alaska and Greenland. … [Read full article]
New Study Looks at Glacier Speeds, Rethinks Contribution to Sea Level Rise
Understanding the contribution outlet glaciers have on the global sea level rise is tricky business, and as a new study shows, we are seriously lacking in long-term information. A lack … [Read full article]
Complete Melt of Greenland Ice Sheet Closer Than First Thought
According to a new study the Greenland ice sheet is possibly more vulnerable to the temperature increase of global warming than previously estimated. According to the study, conducted by scientists … [Read full article]
Lessons from the Vikings' Experience with Climate Change
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” said George Santayana, and scientists who have been studying the past environments and archaeological remains of Greenland and Iceland … [Read full article]
Winter Bicycling in… Greenland!
Over on the wonderful, leading bicycle site Copenhagenize, Mikael Colville-Andersen shared some pretty superb pictures of and comments on bicycling in Greenland and other northern countries last month. This one above … [Read full article]
Greenland’s Bedrock Underwent Significant Uplift in 2010 Ice Melt Spike
The year 2010 saw an unusually high melting season in Greenland which subsequently impacted the amount of ice weighing down the bedrock of the island causing it to lose 100 … [Read full article]
Extreme Ice Sheet Melting Does Not Need Extreme Heat
New research has provided evidence to suggest that massive melting of ice sheets like the Greenland ice sheet does not need corresponding record temperature highs, rather, just persistent warm weather … [Read full article]
Chinese Gobi Desert From Space (Photo of the Day)
The black spots below are not problems with the photography, but rather lakes in what is normally the arid Gobi Desert in the Chinese Autonomous Region of Inner Mongolia.
Weddell Sea Covered in Ice
Scientists working with NASA’s Operation IceBridge airborne research campaign started their third year of survey flights and captured this image of the sea ice covering the Weddell Sea.