Greenland's ice sheet currently spans over 1.7 million square kilometers and is the largest freshwater reservoir in the ...

Melting causes the Greenland Ice Sheet's glaciers to flow faster down slopes and valleys; this, in turn, stretches the ice sheet so much that it cracks open, Chudley explained. "As the ice sheet ...

At the same time, an even larger ice sheet covered much of Scandinavia. Back then the North Sea, was narrower and deeper than it is today, like a large ‘fjord’. Periodically, the ice sheets from the ...

Roughly 20,000–22,000 years ago, glaciers (or, to be more precise, an ice sheet that shifted from Scandinavia) shaped present-day European terrain, leaving distinct marks on the landscape that ...

NASA scientists conducting surveys of arctic ice sheets in Greenland got an unprecedented ... "The Iceman that Never Came" published in The Scandinavian Journal of History. "The key concept ...

New images from the North Sea show never-before-seen landforms that were carved by a single, colossal ice sheet 1 million years ago and subsequently buried beneath a thick layer of mud ...

Past ice sheets have retreated rapidly, raising global sea level at rates >1 cm per year, with marine ice sheets collapsing and terrestrial ice sheets retreating in a more gradual fashion.