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The shrinking of the Greenland Ice Sheet can’t be stopped—but it can and must be slowed
This is what’s happening as the Greenland Ice Sheet shrinks. Covering the world’s largest island, the Greenland Ice Sheet ...
Updated physical model helps reconstruct sudden, dramatic sea level rise after last ice age
Around 14,500 years ago, toward the end of the last ice age, melting continental ice sheets drove a sudden and cataclysmic ...
'The ice melted beneath our feet': The huskies that revealed the rapid shrinking of Greenland's ice
In 2019, climate scientist Steffen Olsen took a startling photo of huskies appearing to walk on water. The photo went viral ...
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Mega-storm dumps 11 billion tonnes of snow ― and builds up a melting ice sheet
A well-timed atmospheric river dropped enough snow on Greenland for its ice sheet to lose 8% less mass than expected.
What's under all that ice in Antarctica? New map has answers.
A new map released this week gives us a clear view of the continent as if its massive sheet of ice has been removed.
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Innovative system of ‘listening’ sensors to monitor Greenland ice melt
Scientists are deploying an early warning system to closely monitor how rapidly the Greenland ice sheet is melting and help ...
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Scenery of ice sheets near Kangerlussuaq
A scientific research device is placed on the ice sheet near Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark, ...
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Arctic ice is melting faster than expected — and the culprit could be dust
An audacious NASA mission suggests that dust blown north from Greenland couldhelp explain why Arctic ice is melting even ...