"The Memory of Darkness, Light, and Ice" looks at ancient sediment pulled from beneath ice sheet that was stored at ...

If the ice sheet covering Greenland melted, global sea levels would rise 21 feet (7 meters), profoundly impacting our planet.

New research suggests that this mystery platinum signature underneath the Greenland ice sheet may have originated from a ...

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 ...

Scientists were caught by surprise after discovering a massive flood of subglacial lakewater burst through Greenland’s ice sheet, spilling copious amounts of water across its surface. As detailed in a ...

BELLINGHAM, Wash. — A team of researchers from Western Washington University (WWU) spent the past week in Greenland, conducting climate research focused on the Greenland ice sheet, the world’s second ...

If 24 billion gallons of water burst through the ice sheet in Greenland, and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? While one can debate the philosophy of perception for ages, multiple ...

The event released 23.8 billion gallons (90 million cubic meters) of meltwater over the course of 10 days. A hidden lake beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet unexpectedly drained more than a decade ago, ...

As Greenland’s glaciers melt, water usually drains to the bedrock below before flowing out to the ocean. But in 2014, a huge torrent of meltwater from a subglacial lake burst out of the surface of the ...