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Greenland's ice sheet is a large body of ice that covers most of the island, with a maximum thickness of more than 3 ...
A massive flood that breached the Greenland ice sheet in 2014 created a huge crater that is now being researched, the ...
A sudden flood from a hidden lake beneath Greenland's ice sheet reveals a powerful meltwater process not currently accounted ...
A huge flood triggered by the rapid draining of a lake beneath the Greenland ice sheet occurred with such force that it ...
Satellite images reveal how a subglacial lake erupted through the Greenland ice sheet – a phenomenon never witnessed before ...
Water usually flows downward, but something strange happened under Greenland’s ice sheet when a deluge punched through the ...
The glassy cylinder is the planet's oldest ice and was drilled from deep inside the Antarctic ice sheet. Frozen inside is ...
Landscapes left behind by ancient rivers and buried beneath the Antarctic ice may affect the rate of ice loss, researchers ...
The funding allows earth sciences researcher Sophie Nowicki to continue leading an international ice sheet modeling project.
“I could see it showing up in a James Bond movie,” said Robin E. Bell, an expert in ice sheet dynamics at Columbia and a former president of the American Geophysical Union. Dr.
The Antarctic ice sheet, which covers 98% of the continent, averages around 1.2 miles in thickness, with its thickest point reaching nearly 3 miles, the Australian Antarctic Program reports.
A sudden flood from a hidden lake beneath Greenland's ice sheet reveals a powerful meltwater process not currently accounted ...