The riches thought to lie beneath Greenland's icy terrain have been coveted for more than a century. But how easy are they to ...
Instead, they were using the radar to survey the inner layers of the Greenland ice sheet, map how it interacts with ... Greene said in the report. "Without detailed knowledge of ice thickness ...
DONALD Trump has doubled down on his intention to acquire Greenland when he is president, and this map shows why he is so ... Far from being a useless block of ice, Greenland is a vital strategic ...
Constructing the trenches at Camp Century, Greenland. (credit: Wikimedia Commons) Scientists used radar to map the ... and the ice-bed interface,” as Greene explained. “Without detailed ...
Deep below the thick ice of Greenland lies a labyrinth ... a way that they’ve never been before.’ But the icy Greenland site is not without its dangers – it continues to store nuclear ...
What looks to be a large impact crater has been identified beneath the Greenland ice sheet ... million years ago. But without drilling through nearly 1km of ice to sample the bed directly ...
This is one of thousands of giant sinkholes, or moulins, in Greenland where water is draining through the ice sheet into the ocean. Meltwater from Greenland is the largest current contributor to ...
The NSIDC-0670 mosaic averages all available data from 1995 to 2015 to provide a multi-decade average velocity map. Winters starting in 2000: MEaSUREs Greenland Ice Sheet Velocity Map from InSAR Data ...
The changing environment has seen parts of Greenland's ice sheet and glaciers replaced by wetlands, areas of shrub and barren rock. For mining companies, Greenland's ice retreat could facilitate ...
The Greenland Ice Sheet blankets 81 percent of Greenland Island. This monstrous ice slab stretches 2,480 kilometers (1,540 miles) long and up to 750 kilometers (465 miles) wide. The ice sheet is so ...
"If you divide all of the ice-free areas of Greenland, you can probably fit 200 map sheets of a one to 100,000 scale," Find Kokfelt says. When the geologists did the maths, they realised it would ...