Greenland

Radar surveys have previously mapped Greenland’s bedrock buried underneath a few thousand meters of ice. Mathematical models were used to fill in the gaps in survey data and infer bedrock depths. However, the reviews uncovered the long valley, which was segmented, preventing water from flowing freely through it.  Be that…

A team of scientists from Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University has discovered paleolake basin situated beneath the ice sheet in northwest Greenland; geomorphological analysis and hydrological modeling indicate that the basin once hosted a lake with a surface area of up to 7,100 km2 and a volume of up…

Leidy Glacier in NW Greenland. Image: NASA GoddardScientists have discovered an ancient lakebed buried under a mile of ice in Greenland, providing a glimpse of what the remote region looked like in the past—and how it might look in a future shaped by human-driven climate change.The bygone lake once covered…

Home News NASA's Operation IceBridge research aircraft spies the Upper Baffin Bay coast on March 27, 2017, above Greenland. (Image: © Mario Tama/Getty Images) Rapid melt is reshaping coastal Greenland, potentially altering the human and animal ecosystems along the country's coast. New research published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth…

A new genus and species of mammaliaform that lived during the Triassic period has been identified from a partial jaw with teeth found on the eastern coast of Greenland. It represents the earliest known example of a dentary bone with double molariform roots and a crown with two rows of…

Edge of the Greenland’s ice sheet. Credit: Jason BrinerResearchers determined that Greenland is on track to lose more ice this century than during any of the previous 120 centuries. Christopher Intagliata reports.Greenland is the biggest island in the world. And the ice sheet that sits atop it is massive.  "The…

An aerial picture shows bergy bits and growlers floating in front of the Apusiajik glacier, near Kulusuk (aslo spelled Qulusuk), a settlement in the Sermersooq municipality located on the island of the same name on the southeastern shore of Greenland. (JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty Images) The global flow of ocean…

The vast Greenland ice sheet is melting at some of its fastest rates in the past 12,000 years. And it could quadruple over the next 80 years if greenhouse gas emissions don’t decline dramatically in the coming decades. Research published yesterday in the journal Nature warns that the ice sheet’s future losses depend…

Sea level: Greenland ice loss worst in 12,000 years Ice loss from Greenland’s massive ice sheet will cause sea levels to rise more during the 21st century than they have during any 100-year period in the last 12,000 years, even if global warming is held in check, scientists said Wednesday.…

Infographic describing the study’s findings. Credit: Bob Wilder / University at Buffalo The research places the ice sheet’s modern decline in historical context, providing a robust look at how this century’s losses could starkly outpace prior changes. If human societies don’t sharply curb emissions of greenhouse gases, Greenland’s rate of…