The Swiss Camp was located about 80 kilometres from the town of Ilulissat on the Greenland ice sheet. For 30 years, among other things, the influence of climate change on the cryosphere was studied here, until this influence now also cost the camp. Image:...
Last week, more than 8 billion tonnes melted from Greenland’s ice sheet on each of two consecutive days. Photo: Heiner Kubny Greenland’s ice sheet is melting rapidly again this year – on Wednesday and Thursday of last week alone, a total of nearly 17...
Glaciers such as Eqip Sermia in the central part of West Greenland have been under close observation by science teams for years. This is because the ice streams have continued to retreat due to increased melting. Their behaviour forms a kind of early warning system...
The second largest continuous mass of ice on earth is located on Greenland. An estimated 2.6 trillion tons of ice lie on the island. It’s hard to believe that this amount of ice can melt away at all. But the results of the new study show just how fragile this...
Looking across the ice surfaces of the Arctic Ocean or an ice sheet, it is hard to see that these icy worlds are under massive pressure. However, despite the seemingly endless ice areas, the amounts of ice that have melted away due to global warming are unimaginably...