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Full moon over the Greenland Ice Sheet

Researchers build more detailed picture of the movement of Greenland Ice Sheet

10 Feb 2023
Researchers have found that the movement of glaciers in Greenland is more complex than previously thought, with deformation in regions of warmer ice...
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Accelerating melt rate makes Greenland Ice Sheet world’s largest ‘dam’

21 Feb 2022
The world’s second-largest ice sheet is melting from the bottom up – and generating huge amounts of heat from hydropower.
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Fibre-optics used to take the temperature of Greenland Ice Sheet

14 May 2021
Scientists have used fibre-optic sensing to obtain the most detailed measurements of ice properties ever taken on the Greenland Ice Sheet. Their...
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Drone images show Greenland Ice Sheet becoming more unstable as it fractures

03 Dec 2019
The world’s second-largest ice sheet, and the single largest contributor to global sea level rise, is potentially becoming unstable because of...
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Rapid melting of the world’s largest ice shelf linked to solar heat in the ocean

29 Apr 2019
An international team of scientists has found part of the world’s largest ice shelf is melting 10 times faster than the overall ice shelf average due...
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UK and US join forces to understand how quickly a massive Antarctic glacier could collapse

30 Apr 2018
A Cambridge researcher will lead one of eight projects in a new joint UK-US research programme that is one of the most detailed and extensive...
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Chain reaction of fast-draining lakes poses new risk for Greenland ice sheet

14 Mar 2018
A growing network of lakes on the Greenland ice sheet has been found to drain in a chain reaction that speeds up the flow of the ice sheet...
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