The candidate island was already visible on satellite images in 1989. Only after the collapse of the Conger ice shelf does it become clear that the ice mound must be an island. Photo: Joshua Stevens/Landsat/ICESat-2 Where snow and ice cover the landscape and the...
Greenland includes ice, snow and rock. Nunataqs are mountain peaks that stick out of the ice. The Alps probably also looked similar during the last ice age. Photo: Christian Rixen, SLF An expedition around northern Greenland led SLF botanist Christian Rixen to the...
The tiny island consists mainly of small mounds of silt and gravel. It could be the result of a large storm that gradually pushed together material from the seafloor with the help of the sea. Photo: Julian Charriere/via REUTERS Polar researchers from Denmark and...
