Greenland

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…

Greenland dropped all plans for future oil exploration on environmental grounds, saying the price of extraction was “too high.” The island’s socialist-led government, in office since April, has made climate concerns central to its legislative program. While the decision to scrap planned exploration is a win for environmental groups, it…

SummaryHigh on Greenland's ice sheet, particle astrophysicists are this week drilling boreholes in a search for the cosmic accelerators responsible for the universe's most energetic particles. By placing hundreds of radio antennas on and below the surface, they hope to trap elusive particles known as neutrinos at higher energies than…

Australian media company, the Seven Network, has today confirmed it will broadcast innovative electric race series, Extreme E, on its free-to-air network and market-leading BVOD platform, 7plus.    Seven, which is part of Seven West Media, will air Extreme E’s one-hour highlights programmes throughout its capital cities including Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane,…