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Lakes collapse and release meltwater during winter causing inland ice to speed up in Greenland

A team of international researchers has shown for the first time how 18 meltwater lakes in Greenland collapse during winter, which causes the edges...

New ice core analysis shows sharp Greenland warming spike

A sharp spike in Greenland temperatures since 1995 showed the giant northern island 2.7 degrees (1.5 degrees Celsius) hotter than its 20th-century average, the...

Global warming reaches central Greenland

A temperature reconstruction from ice cores of the past 1,000 years reveals that today's warming in central-north Greenland is surprisingly pronounced. The most recent...

Ice loss from Northeastern Greenland significantly underestimated

Ice is continuously streaming off Greenland's melting glaciers at an accelerating rate, dramatically increasing global sea levels. New results published today in Nature indicate...

Greenland already locked in to major sea level rise

Even without any future global warming, Greenland's melting ice sheet will cause major sea level rise with potentially "ominous" implications over this century as...

Greenland’s Indigenous population favors extracting and exporting sand from melting ice sheet

A national survey of close to 1,000 adults in Greenland (where approximately 90% of the population is Indigenous) conducted by a McGill University-led research...

100-year-old Greenland shark that washed up on UK beach had brain infection, autopsy finds

The super-rare Greenland shark that washed ashore in England last month had a brain infection when it died, according to an animal autopsy of...

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