New 3D maps of the Greenland Ice Sheet show how huge cracks in the ice that accelerate melting expanded between 2016 and 2021 ...

Observing Greenland ... global challenges that climate change presents. Since 2023, an international coalition of polar ...

Greenland’s Ice Sheet is cracking open at the seams, literally falling apart at speeds indicative of the brutal and ...

Some coastal areas are already struggling to adapt to sea level rise, and millions of people around the world are at risk of ...

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 ... to speed ice loss and global sea level rise. Crevasses are wedge-shaped fractures and cracks that open in glaciers where the ice ...

A research team, led by scientists from Durham University using 3-D surface maps, found crevasses ... had evolved across Greenland between 2016 and 2021. The findings showed that, at the edges of the ...

Crevasses can reach over 300 feet in width, thousands of feet in length, and hundreds of feet in depth. Research led by glaciologist Thomas Chudley from ...