Scientists working in the Arctic have watched a lake on the Greenland Ice Sheet drain five million cubic meters of water—equivalent to 2,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools—in just five hours. The rapid ...

Lakes form on the surface of the Greenland ice sheet each summer as the weather warms. They exist for weeks or months but can drain in a matter of hours due to hydrofracturing, transferring millions ...

A growing network of lakes on the Greenland ice sheet has been found to drain in a chain reaction that speeds up the flow of the ice sheet, threatening its stability. Diese Meldung teilen ...

Researchers report field observations of the rapid draining of a lake on the Greenland Ice Sheet. Supraglacial lakes can drain to the bed of ice sheets in a matter of hours, altering ice dynamics on ...

A growing network of lakes on the Greenland ice sheet has been found to drain in a chain reaction that speeds up the flow of the ice sheet, threatening its stability. A growing network of lakes on the ...