Greenland

You may have seen the headlines back in July: Thanks to a heat wave, enough ice melted during one day in Greenland to cover Florida in two inches of water. Based on those headlines, you may have gotten the impression that the island's ice sheet had gone into a death…

A mineral exploration company backed by billionaires like Jeffrey Bezos, Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg signed an agreement with Bluejay Mining to search for electric vehicle metals in Greenland.  The company, KoBold Metals, uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to search for raw materials, Reuters reports. Kobold will pay $15…

Vendors move their belongings in a flooded area on the banks of the River Ganges in Allahabad on August 4, 2021, as the water levels of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers rise after monsoon rains. AFP PHOTO BANGKOK: The number of people exposed to floods worldwide has surged almost a…

A Greenland glacier meets the ocean. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech This week, NASA's airborne Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) mission begins its final survey of glaciers that flow from Greenland into the ocean. OMG is completing a six-year mission that is helping to answer how fast sea level is going to rise in…

Home News Ice receding from a glacier near Kangerlussuaq, Greenland. This photo was taken during a helicopter tour of the region with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in May 2021. (Image credit: Saul Loeb/Pool/AFP via Getty Images.) Greenland's enormous ice sheet has been struck by a "massive melting event,"…

Greenland's ice sheet has experienced a "massive melting event" during a heat wave that has seen temperatures more than 10 degrees above seasonal norms, according to Danish researchers. Since Wednesday, the ice sheet covering the vast Arctic territory has melted by about 8 billion tons a day, twice its normal…

The amount of ice that vanished in a single day in Greenland was enough to cover "Florida with 2 inches (5 centimetres) of water", scientists said (Photo: Unsplash) Updated: Aug 1, 2021, 10:12 AM IST The Greenland ice sheet is undergoing a surge in melting as this week it experienced…

The Greenland Ice Sheet is the second largest mass of freshwater ice on the planet, second only to Antarctica. Greenland's ice sheet has experienced a "massive melting event" during a heatwave that has seen temperatures more than 10 degrees above seasonal norms, according to Danish researchers. Since Wednesday the ice…

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This NASA Landsat 8 image shows a meltwater pond near the edge of Greenland's ice sheet. NASA/USGS It's been a summer of record heat in the Northern Hemisphere, which scientists say would have been virtually impossible without the effects of human-caused climate change. Records have been shattered this year along…