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Crevasses play an integral part in the life cycle of glaciers, and as they grow they hold the potential to further accelerate ice-sheet loss.

With the state's glaciers retreating at alarming rates, there is no time like now to trek, climb, paddle and fly to see them

Northeast Greenland is home to the 79° N Glacier—the country's largest floating glacier tongue, but also one seriously threatened by global warming. Warm water from the Atlantic is melting it from below. However, experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute have now determined that the temperature of the water flowing into the glacier cavern declined from 2018 to 2021, even though the ocean has steadily warmed in the…

The Vikings held silver in high regard, so the find has significant historical value.

It was one year ago that "an odd seismic signal appeared at scientific stations around the globe," reports the Washington Post. "A day passed, and the slow tremor still reverberated. When it continued for a third day, scientists worldwide began assembling..." Some initially thought the seismic ins...

It started with a melting glacier that set off a landslide, which triggered a tsunami. Then the Earth began to shake

The scale of the geological event is like something from prehistoric times, with a tsunami 200 meters--656 feet--in height. But it happened last year. Researchers warn that similar events may reoccur.

A 650-foot tsunami in Greenland was the result of melting glacial ice that caused a landslide. The waves it created bounced back and forth for nine days.

In September, a strange nine-day signal rocked our planet and baffled scientists. Now they have finally found the cause.

Landslide-triggered tsunamis due to melting glaciers and permafrost are becoming more common with global warming. Read more about Alaska and Greenland. The post Landslide-triggered tsunamis becoming more common first appeared on EarthSky.

Princess Märtha Louise of Norway and her American Shaman fiancé, Durek Verrett, have arrived in Norway for their wedding, which will take place in Geiranger, a UNESCO World Heritage Site known for its breathtaking fjords and snowcapped mountains.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Just under a year ago, the east coast of Greenland was hit by a megatsunami. Triggered by a large landslide entering the uninhabited Dickson Fjord, the resulting tsunami was 200 meters high -- equivalent to more than 40 double-decker buses. Luck...

Fiction by Annie Proulx: Arwen's last thought before sleep is that he is in a twisting cyclonic fall down through the ocean trench to become a compressed speck of matter. It feels good.

The fjords on Sweden's west coast act as effective carbon traps regardless of whether the bottom water is oxygen-rich or not. This is the conclusion of a new study by researchers from the University of Gothenburg.

U.S. Marines joined NATO exercises in Norway near the border with Russia. Sweden and Finland also took part for the first time as the war in Ukraine loomed.

Scientists have long wondered how baleen whales make their songs, and a new study has finally uncovered the anatomical workings behind their melodies.

Over the past 25 years, the amount of summer Arctic sea ice has diminished by more than 1 million square kilometers. As a result, vast areas of the Arctic Ocean are now, on average, ice-free in summer. Scientists are closely monitoring how this impacts sunlight availability and marine ecosystems in the far north.

South Georgia Island's Cumberland Bay has seen a resurgence of the marine mammals

They refer to the rest of America as the lower 48. Almost like it's another country, foreign, and on the other side of the world. And to add to this idea of being so far away and separated in more ways than one, visitors from southern states

A better picture of the hidden landscape beneath the frozen surface of Antarctica could help us understand how the ice will respond to climate change