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Scientists Warn About the ‘Greenlandification’ of Antarctica

Global warming is awakening sleeping giants of ice at the South Pole as glaciers start to flow faster and surface melting increases.

By Bob Berwyn

A view of the Shoesmith Glacier on Horseshoe Island on Feb. 21. Credit: Sebnem Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images
Melting ice is seen in the bay of Nuuk, Greenland, on March 10. Credit: Odd Andersen/AFP via Getty Images

Surviving the Thaw: Greenland’s Inuit Grapple with Their Melting World

By Maddy Keyes

Crevasses upstream of the terminus of the Jakobshavn Isbræ (Sermeq Kujalleq) Glacier in west-central Greenland, a region where a new study shows a significant spread of crevasses. Photo courtesy William Colgan, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland.

New 3-D Study of the Greenland Ice Sheet Shows Glaciers Falling Apart Faster Than Expected

By Bob Berwyn

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation carries cold water from near Greenland (blue line) southward along the seafloor toward Antarctica, while currents nearer the surface transport warmer water northward. Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Extreme Climate Impacts From Collapse of a Key Atlantic Ocean Current Could be Worse Than Expected, a New Study Warns

By Bob Berwyn

The Ilulissat Ice fjord in Greenland runs west 25 miles from the Greenland ice sheet to Disko Bay close to Ilulissat town. Credit: Veronique Durruty/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images.

Extreme Rain From Atmospheric Rivers and Ice-Heating Micro-Cracks Are Ominous New Threats to the Greenland Ice Sheet

By Bob Berwyn

An aerial view of meltwater lakes formed at the Russell Glacier front, part of the Greenland ice sheet in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, on Aug. 16, 2022. Credit: Lukasz Larsson Warzecha/Getty Images

One of the World’s Coldest Places Is Now the Warmest it’s Been in 1,000 Years, Scientists Say

By Bob Berwyn

The Greenland Ice Sheet, which has enough frozen water to raise sea levels by 20 feet, melted away completely at least once about 1 million years ago, new research shows. Credit: Joshua Brown

Long-lost Core Drilled to Prepare Ice Sheet to Hide Nuclear Missiles Holds Clues About a Different Threat

By Bob Berwyn

In this aerial view from a drone water carves a winding channel down the surface of the melting Longyearbreen glacier during a summer heat wave on Svalbard archipelago on July 31, 2020 near Longyearbyen, Norway. Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Annual Report Card Marks Another Disastrous Year for the Arctic

By Bob Berwyn

Water from the Greenland ice sheet flows through heather and peat during unseasonably warm weather on Aug. 1, 2019. Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Going, Going ... Gone: Greenland’s Melting Ice Sheet Passed a Point of No Return in the Early 2000s

By Bob Berwyn

Greenland ice sheet

Study: Predicting Tipping Points Within Reach

By Lisa Song, SolveClimate News

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