A Greenland Glacier Is Cracking Open – and Scientists Are Watching It Drain in Real Time

A Greenland Glacier Is Cracking Open – and Scientists Are Watching It Drain in Real Time

Repeated, rapid drainages from a meltwater lake on Greenland’s 79°N Glacier are exposing how warming-driven fractures and hidden channels may be pushing the glacier into an unfamiliar and potentially unstable state. Since the mid-1990s, the Greenland ice sheet has steadily lost mass, and only three floating glacier tongues remain today. One of them, Nioghalvfjerdsbræ, also [...]