The Memory of Darkness, Light, and Ice” looks at ancient sediment pulled from beneath the ice sheet that was stored at the ...

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 ...

Greenland’s bedrock is shifting, rising, and sliding northwest as ancient and modern ice loss reshape the island beneath the ...

Greenland may look like a frozen wasteland, but beneath its three-kilometer-thick ice lies a hidden world of mountains, ...

Scientists were caught by surprise after discovering a massive flood of subglacial lakewater burst through Greenland’s ice sheet, spilling copious amounts of water across its surface. As detailed in a ...

BELLINGHAM, Wash. — A team of researchers from Western Washington University (WWU) spent the past week in Greenland, conducting climate research focused on the Greenland ice sheet, the world’s second ...

Flying into Kangerlusuaq on the west coast of Greenland I get a glimpse of what’s ahead. My nose is pressed to the tiny plane windows, jaw-dropping, as towering mountains of bright white ice melt into ...

If 24 billion gallons of water burst through the ice sheet in Greenland, and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? While one can debate the philosophy of perception for ages, multiple ...

The event released 23.8 billion gallons (90 million cubic meters) of meltwater over the course of 10 days. A hidden lake beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet unexpectedly drained more than a decade ago, ...

A report warns that coral reefs may have reached their tipping point, and ice sheets, ocean currents and the Amazon are at ...

An article published in Nature Geoscience on July 30th, 2025 explores an event that happened in 2014 but was only recently discovered thanks to archives of satellite images. The Greenland Ice Sheet ...