Greenland's mega-canyon was originally cut by an ancient river system The data for the map comes from three principal sources - from airborne radar that is able to penetrate the ice sheet to see ...

Hidden meltwater within Greenland’s Ice Sheet is challenging current climate models and reshaping sea-level rise predictions.

Scientists have identified more than 50 new lakes of liquid water lying under the Greenland Ice Sheet. Only four had previously been detected. Antarctica hides some 470 lakes beneath its ice but ...

A recent study reveals a surprising finding: a significant amount of meltwater is temporarily retained within the Greenland ...

A new report describes the dire state of Earth’s snow and ice, suggesting several major tipping points are likelier than ...

The maps here show the world as it is now ... West Antarctica: Like the Greenland ice sheet, the West Antarctic one was apparently much smaller during earlier warm periods. It's vulnerable ...

This technique has revealed groundwater beneath Greenland, the long-term impacts of extreme melt, a process that could accelerate ice sheet mass loss ... radar systems that map the land underneath ...

The idea for the open-source platform arose when Broome and Teisberg were separately developing plans for radar systems that map the land ... at the top of the Greenland ice sheet.

Now, a new study claims that we may have a small window of opportunity to turn things around and save the melting ice sheet that covers Greenland. The vast ice sheet that covers most of Greenland ...

A new study found on Wednesday that part of Greenland’s ice sheet is thinning further inland than previously believed, which is likely to lead to a greater rise in sea levels by the end of this ...

A map of the contiguous U.S. shows how coastal ... Antarctica contains enough frozen water to raise sea levels by 190 feet, ...