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Huge ice sheets melting `at rate of 300bn tonnes a year`

Last Updated: Monday, July 15, 2013, 11:08

Massive ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland are losing around 300 billion tonnes of ice every year, new research has indicated.

Greenland`s ice sheet melting rapidly

Last Updated: Thursday, July 11, 2013, 14:33

A new study has revealed that surface ice melt will be the dominant process controlling ice-loss from Greenland.

NASA`s polar robotic ranger GROVER passes Greenland test

Last Updated: Tuesday, July 9, 2013, 19:31

Defying 30 mph gusts and temperatures down to minus 22 F, NASA`s new polar rover in Greenland has demonstrated that it could operate completely autonomously in one of Earth`s harshest environments.

Melting glaciers account for third of sea-level rise

Last Updated: Friday, May 17, 2013, 18:34

World`s shrinking glaciers contributed to almost a third of the sea-level rise between 2003 and 2009, a new study has found.

New rover set to explore Greenland ice sheet

Last Updated: Thursday, May 2, 2013, 10:32

NASA`s newest scientific rover, known as GROVER is set for testing May 3 through June 8 in the highest part of Greenland.

Thin clouds drove Greenland`s record-breaking 2012 ice melt

Last Updated: Saturday, April 6, 2013, 11:02

Thin, low-level clouds were instrumental in driving Greenland`s record-shattering ice melt last year, a new study has found.

Low-level clouds behind Greenland`s record-breaking ice melt in 2012

Last Updated: Thursday, April 4, 2013, 12:49

The culprit that caused the record-shattering level of ice melting in Greenland in 2012 may have been low, thin clouds, a new study has revealed.

10% of Greenland glaciers contribute to sea-level rise

Last Updated: Tuesday, March 19, 2013, 13:27

Sea-level rise from the glaciers of Greenland separated from the ice sheet makes up around 10 percent of the estimated contribution of the entire world`s glaciers and ice caps

Glaciers will melt faster than ever and loss could be irreversible, warn scientists

Last Updated: Friday, March 8, 2013, 12:27

Canada`s Arctic Archipelago glaciers will melt faster than ever in the next few centuries. <br><br>

Russian meteor blast resonated from Greenland to Antarctica

Last Updated: Thursday, February 28, 2013, 18:10

The meteor strike over the steppes of southwestern Russia sent a low-frequency rumble bouncing through the Earth, giving scientists new clues about the biggest cosmic intruder in 100 years.

Greenland ice cores provide vision of `warmer` future world

Last Updated: Thursday, January 24, 2013, 22:53

Ice cores drilled in the Greenland ice sheet are giving scientists their clearest insight to a world that was warmer than today.

Economic, identity issues `may have driven Vikings out of Greenland`

Last Updated: Sunday, January 13, 2013, 14:03

Economic and identity issues, rather than starvation and disease, drove Viking descendent out of Greenland back to their ancestral homes in the 15th century, researchers say.