Science news articles about 'greenland ice cap'

A group of Scottish soldiers cross the Greenland ice cap in a record 27 days - well ahead of schedule.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Sept. 21 (UPI) -- A team of Danish, Canadian and Russian scientists say they have used ice cores to determine and analyze the Greenland ice cap's 11,700-year evolution.

... lot of confidence in the numbers and our inferences about the processes". The Greenland ice sheet contains enough water ... rise of seven metres. Since 2000, the ice sheet has lost about 1500 Gt in total ...

... changed fundamentally during quite few years when the ice age ended. Researchers from the Niels Bohr ... cores from the NorthGRIP drilling through the Greenland ice cap, and the epoch-making new results ...

... lies in reducing the high levels of uncertainty over the current and future behaviour of the Greenland ice cap, and reconciling the many conflicting observations and predictions. In the case of the ...

... Alert, on the Devon ice cap in Canada and on the vast Greenland ice cap. The campaign includes ... altimeter and a laser altimeter to take measurements of ice while teams on the ground take measurements ...

... The few morsels of more heartening analysis - such as the suggestion that the total destruction of the Greenland ice cap might be slightly more remote than we suspected - only served to underline that ...

... the first time two isotopes of nitrogen found in nitrates in a Greenland ice core. The core, 100 meters long and taken at the peak of the Greenland ice cap in June 2006, contains a record of ...