Geographers create ‘easy button’ to calculate river flows from space
The frustrated attempts of a UCLA graduate student to quantify the amount of water draining … more
Greenland
Greenland’s fastest glacier reaches record speeds
Jakobshavn Isbræ (Jakobshavn Glacier) is moving ice from the Greenland ice sheet into the ocean … more
Greenland ice sheet stores liquid water year-round
National Science Foundation-funded researchers at the University of Utah have discovered a previously unknown aquifer … more
Arctic a source of atmospheric carbon
For the past three decades, as the climate has warmed, the massive plates of sea … more
Greenland’s shrunken ice sheet: We’ve been here before
Think Greenland’s ice sheet is small today? It was smaller — as small as it … more
The tundra — a dark horse in planet Earth’s greenhouse gas budget
Vast areas on the Northern Hemisphere are covered by tundra. Here, dwarf shrubs, sedges, mosses … more
NASA Data Reveals Mega-Canyon under Greenland Ice Sheet
Data from a NASA airborne science mission reveals evidence of a large and previously unknown … more
New drilling technique helps reveal the ‘plumbing’ beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet
Scientists’ understanding of how Greenland Ice Sheet melt water travels in passages along the bedrock … more
Ancient ice melt unearthed in Antarctic mud
Global warming five million years ago may have caused parts of Antarctica’s large ice sheets … more
Greenland ice sheet to continue push of sea-level
New research has shown surface ice melt will be the dominant process controlling ice-loss from … more
