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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 ...

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 ...

A huge flood triggered by the rapid draining of a lake beneath the Greenland ice sheet occurred with such force that it fractured the ice above and burst out across its surface. This phenomenon, ...

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, ...

Headlines about melting ice sheets usually focus on what is lost and then move on. What comes next is often overlooked, even though it matters just as much. A new study of East Antarctica reaches back ...

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., ...

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 ...