At the center of Greenland, where the planet’s largest ice sheet pours down into the Arctic air, a weather station recently recorded a temperature of 30.92°C a reading so breathtaking that it made ...

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 ...

Analyses will help to reveal how far the West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreated in the past — and what it might do in the future.

The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are highly vulnerable to global warming and scientists are being increasingly worried about the possibility of large parts of the ice sheets collapsing, if ...

Every day, massive chunks of ancient ice the size of skyscrapers crash into the Arctic Ocean from Greenland's coastline. The sounds echo across vast fjords while scientists track the transformation of ...

Though ice sheet melting is widely talked of and debated, there is limited knowledge about what happens after the period of melting. Researchers dig into this "after" period and see how it relates to ...

Tectonic processes and the "ghosts" of past ice sheets are contorting, lifting and pulling Greenland in different directions, new research reveals. Greenland sits on the North American tectonic plate, ...

How much sea level rise will coastal communities have to contend with by the end of the century, and beyond? Melt from the Earth’s ice sheets is already contributing to flooding throughout the U.S., ...

Though ice sheet melting is widely talked of and debated, there is limited knowledge on what happens after the period of melting. Researchers dig into this “after” period and see how it relates to ...

Inès Otosaka receives funding from the European Space Agency and the UK Natural Environment Research Council. The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are highly vulnerable to global warming and ...