Spending the night on the Greenland Ice Sheet, where the sun never sets and the ice never stops moving, is an adventure unlike any other
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Using 3D surface maps, scientists led by Durham University, found crevasses had significantly increased in size and depth on Greenland's ice sheet over the five years between 2016 and 2021
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Riches thought to lie beneath Greenland have been coveted for more than a century – but how easy are they to access, and will climate change make any difference
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Giant viruses discovered on Greenland ice sheet could reduce ice melt by feeding on the snow algae which diminish ability of ice to reflect the sun
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New GPS-based method can measure daily ice loss in Greenland
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Melt rate of Greenland ice sheet can predict summer weather in Europe – location, extent and strength of recent freshwater events suggest unusually warm and dry summer
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Since 1978 ice shelves in North Greenland have lost more than 35% of their total volume, with three of them collapsing completely
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Greenland's massive ice sheet could experience runaway melting if the world overshoots climate targets – but even then quick action could stabilize it
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Buried under the ice
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Greenland's largest glacial floating ice declined 42% due to global warming, scientists determine
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Pay dirt for ice core scientists in East Greenland as they reach bedrock
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Camp Century - The hidden city beneath the ice
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Meltwater is hydro-fracking Greenland's ice sheet through millions of hairline cracks – destabilizing its internal structure
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Daily tides stoked with increasingly warmer water ate a huge hole at the bottom of one of Greenland's major glaciers in the last couple of years
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Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are now losing more than three times as much ice a year as they were thirty years ago
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The Greenland Ice Sheet is close to a melting point of no return, says new study
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New ice core analysis shows a sharp spike in Greenland temperatures since 1995 – 1.5°C hotter than its 20th-century average, the warmest in more than 1,000 years
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Clues to the near-future behaviour of a warming Greenland, and perhaps even a warming Antarctic, buried under the North Sea
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Meltwater from Greenland's ice sheet is loaded with the right kind of sand for concrete production – which further warms the planet
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Zombie ice from the massive Greenland ice sheet will eventually raise global sea level by at least twenty-seven centimeters on its own
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Greenland ice sheet saw a sharp spike in the rate and extent of melting last week – eighteen billion tons of water in just three days
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As the world experiences sea level rise, Iceland's waters are falling – and flowing to the other side of the planet
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Third-biggest ice loss for Greenland in a single day since 1950 – rapid melt followed warm air being trapped by a change in atmospheric circulation patterns
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Large amounts of mercury discovered in Greenland's glaciers – the heavy metal raises concerns for the health of indigenous communities
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Building electronics that can survive under Greenland's ice sheet – meet the Cryoegg, designed to follow the melting going on beneath the ice sheet
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Greenland's ice sheet melting seven times faster than in 1990s
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A big chunk of ice has broken away from the Arctic's largest remaining ice shelf, Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden, in north-east Greenland – ejected section covers about 110 square km
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Polar bear kills man in Norway's Arctic Svalbard islands – experts say polar bears' hunting grounds have diminished as the Arctic ice sheet melts
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Warming Greenland ice sheet passes point of no return
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Early Mars was covered in ice sheets, not flowing rivers
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Scientists confirm dramatic melting of Greenland ice sheet – loss largely due to high pressure zone not taken into account by climate models
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Greenland's melting ice raised global sea level by 2.2mm in two months – analysis of satellite data reveals astounding loss of 600bn tons of ice last summer
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Ice loss from Greenland and Antarctica is tracking the worst-case climate warming scenario set out by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), scientists say
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Greenland's ice sheet melting seven times faster than in 1990s – scale and speed of loss much higher than predicted
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How the Greenland ice sheet fared in 2019
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Before and after pictures show Greenland's rapid ice melt from space
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Scientists have identified more than fifty new lakes of liquid water lying under the Greenland ice sheet
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Greenland is falling apart: Since 1972, the giant island's ice sheet has lost eleven quadrillion pounds of water
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Antarctic ice loss has tripled in a decade. If that continues, we are in serious trouble.
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