Latest “massive melting” of Greenland ice sheet could cover Florida with five centimeters of water

The Polar Portal website has reported that the Greenland ice sheet recent “massive melting event” released ... ice sheets and hold some 70% of the world's fresh water. Read More

Greenland ice loss

Immense valleys smothered by North Sea muds have lessons for ice sheets in a warming world. Several hundred ... backers. The massive ice sheet covering Greenland may have melted by a record ... Read More

Greenland’s massive ice sheet “unprecedented” melt puzzles Nasa scientists

Greenland's massive ice sheet ... melting seen by satellites in the past three decades was about 55% of the area. Ice last melted at Summit station in 1889, ice core records show. The news comes ... Read More

Study reports enormous ice loss from Greenland glacier

Warm ocean water flowing under the glacier tongue is melting the ice from below. High air temperatures cause lakes to form on the surface, whose water flows through huge channels in the ice into ... Read More

Climate-induced melt of Greenland ice will cause 10-plus inches of sea-level rise

The glaciologist team setting up an automatic weather station on the snowy surface above the snow line during the melt season. (The Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, GEUS) (CN) — No matter ... Read More

Got wellies? Sea levels rise as a result of accelerated Greenland ice sheet melting

and data suggests that heatwave frequency has increased, with the knock-on effect of creating unprecedented levels of ice melt. “Model estimates suggest that the Greenland ice sheet will contribute ... Read More

Melt rate of Greenland ice sheet can predict summer weather in Europe, scientist says

but a new paper in the journal Weather and Climate Dynamics suggests that the melt rate of the Greenland ice sheet can predict the next summer’s weather in Europe. The chain of events is complex ... Read More

Melting of polar ice having effect on global timekeeping, research shows

Because the Earth’s rotational speed is not constant and moves out of line with clocks since the world adopted ... to a millisecond. If Greenland’s ice sheet were to melt completely, previous ... Read More

What the World Would Look Like if All the Ice Melted

Explore what the world’s new coastlines would look like. 8 min read This story appears in the September ... West Antarctica: Like the Greenland ice sheet, the West Antarctic one was apparently ... Read More

Greenland Ice Sheet (IMAGE)

This is the 2012 Summit firn melt layer of the Greenland ice sheet. The white layer at about ... are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing ... Read More

Greenland ice sheet which could raise sea level by 7m 'nears point of no return'

The Greenland ice sheet is already melting; between 2003 and 2016, it lost about 255 gigatons (billions of tons) of ice each year. Much of the melt to date has been in the southern part of the ice ... Read More