THE MELTING Sermeq glacier, located around 80 km. south of Nuuk, is photographed in this aerial over Greenland, last September. Since last Rosh Hashanah, Greenland has lost 250 billion tons of ice.

A new large-scale study of crevasses on the Greenland Ice Sheet shows that those cracks are widening faster as the climate warms, which is likely to speed ice loss and global sea level rise.

In most Greenland glaciers that flow into the ocean, scientists found crevasses are increasing in size and depth. [Image: Chudley et al./Nature Geoscience] However, against our expectations ...

The Greenland Ice Sheet, the largest freshwater reservoir in the Northern Hemisphere, is losing mass at an unprecedented rate. Since the 1980s, it has already lost more than a trillion tons of ice ...

A new large-scale study of crevasses on the Greenland ice sheet shows that those ... Crevasses are wedge-shaped fractures and cracks that open in glaciers where the ice begins to flow faster.

Greenland ice researchers expect that more crevasses will form in a warming world because “glaciers are accelerating in response to warmer ocean temperatures, and because meltwater filling ...

More crevasse activity could lead to positive feedback loop threatening Greenland glacier's stability. In just five years, 930 million cubic meters of crevasses opened up in the Greenland ice ...

Deep crevasses form in fast-flowing ice at Store Glacier, an outlet glacier of the west Greenland Ice Sheet. Credit: Tom Chudley (Durham University) Greenland has been behind approximately 14 mm ...

Sermeq Kujalleq is the fastest-flowing glacier on the planet, reaching speeds of nearly 50 metres a day and providing an outsized proportion of Greenland’s total sea-level rise contribution.

Photograph by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Imagine the men there for a moment, encased in a glacier in Greenland, struggling to fire up a reactor—perhaps the only humans to be so perfectly ...