Earth's mantle is so gooey, it takes eons for material that has been displaced by the weight of ice sheets to flow back. And ...
A cave in northern Greenland shows the Arctic once thawed under mild conditions. Scientists say even small warming can ...
New research suggests that this mystery platinum signature underneath the Greenland ice sheet may have originated from a volcanic fissure eruption in Iceland, not space.
Thawing permafrost in Greenland creates access to critical minerals that were previously difficult to extract or were ...
For each of these elements, like the Amazon rain forest or the Greenland ice sheet, hotter temperatures lead to melting ice or drier forests that leave the system more vulnerable to further changes.
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Alexandra A Phillips, University of California, Santa Barbara (THE CONVERSATION) As ...