In two recent studies, researchers suggest a weakening ocean current system is to blame for a persistent cold spot in the ...

An unprecedented Arctic heat wave caused record high temperatures in Greenland and Iceland, raising major concerns among ...

When visiting Godrevy beach on the north Cornish coast, most people look out to sea at the lighthouse, surfers and seals ...

Greenland’s ice sheet covers 656,000 square miles (1.7 million square kilometers), or about 80% of the island. The ice is over 1.9 miles (3 km) thick in places and if the entire sheet melted ...

More information: Michele Petrini et al, A topographically controlled tipping point for complete Greenland ice sheet melt, The Cryosphere (2025). DOI: 10.5194/tc-19-63-2025.

Greenland's melting ice mass is now the No. 1 driver of sea level rise, according to Bierman. "In the early years of the climate warming, it was mountain glaciers that were doing most of the ...

An estimated 11,000 sq miles or 28,707 sq kilometres of Greenland’s ice sheet and glaciers have melted over the last three decades, according to a major analysis of historic satellite records.

Greenland's ice sheet is melting faster than scientists previously estimated, according to a study released Wednesday in the journal Nature, with the loss believed to be 20% worse than previously ...

The sheet currently loses around 270 billion tonnes of ice each year, and contributes a substantial fraction of the current global sea-level rise, which is more than 4 millimetres annually.

MORE: Melting Arctic ice will have catastrophic effects on the world, experts say. Here's how. The researchers analyzed a time series of ice sheet motion and surface elevation data derived from ...