Greenland’s ice sheet is the second-largest ice cap on Earth, and because of the planet’s rising temperatures, it’s melting. Human-induced climate change is intensifying atmospheric rivers, but new research suggests their impact on Greenland’s ice sheet is more complex than once thought. A research pair has investigated the recent impact of an intense atmospheric river—a […]
Scientists Pinpoint ‘Tipping Point’ for Greenland’s Melting Ice Sheet
Much of icy Greenland may soon go the way of the dodo, according to a group of researchers’ latest climatological analysis. Soon is a relative term, but the team posits that just a few degrees of temperature change could put the second-largest ice sheet on Earth into a death spiral, catalyzing over 20 feet (6.1 […]