The Greenland Ice Sheet is a crucial bellwether for monitoring climate change. It holds around 8% of the planet's freshwater ...
In Europe and around the globe, melting glaciers are transforming both landscapes and national borders. In this article, ElzÄ— ...
Climate change − a global phenomenon − can neither be confirmed nor disproven by comparing Antarctic sea ice extent on two ...
Arctic sea ice is undergoing profound changes, with older, rugged ice diminishing and younger, smoother ice becoming more ...
Most of Greenland’s meltwater takes weeks to reach the ocean. A recently published study highlights an innovative new method ...
The results showed that they can: CryoSat-2 and ICESat-2 differed by no more than 3% in their estimates of the elevation ...
Utilizing data from the European Space Agency's CryoSat-2 and NASA's ICESat-2 satellites, researchers mapped changes in the ...
The Greenland ice sheet shrank by an average of 196 cubic kilometers per year between September 2010 and August 2022. The annual amount of melting fluctuated between four and 464 cubic kilometers.
some ice sheets thinned by over 70 meters. This dramatic change isn’t just significant for Greenland itself. The ice melt has far-reaching impacts on ecosystems worldwide, which in turn affect ...
Academics from Northumbria University are part of an international research team which has used data from satellites to track changes in the thickness of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Global warming is ...
The study warns that repeated low ice years could make these changes worse, potentially speeding up Antarctic ice sheet melt. Antarctic sea ice extent was a record low (Data: NSIDC) Previous analysis ...
Incredible satellite images show Greenland’s massive ice sheet melting - Satellite observations have revealed the Greenland ice sheet’s rapid thinning, which has accelerated as the planet warms ...