Researchers in Greenland used a 10-kilometer fiber-optic cable to track how iceberg calving stirs up warm seawater. The ...

For nearly a decade, Leigh Stearns and collaborators aimed a laser scanner system at Greenland's Helheim Glacier. Their ...

Scientists have uncovered how massive underwater waves triggered by iceberg calving secretly fuel glacier melt in Greenland. Iceberg calving takes place when large sections of ice detach from the ...

As far as novelty waves go – from river waves, to oil tanker wakes, to sketchy slabs breaking over dry reef – it’s more about the experience, less about the score. One does not expect to get a ...

The glacier is reached via a three-hour boat ride north through the Ataa Strait from Ilulissat, Greenland's third-largest town on the west coast of the country. In winter, temperatures drop to -20°C ( ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

All before us is ice. Stretching out for miles there's nothing but a vast barrier of white. A frozen sea, more than 30 stories tall, as menacing as it is beautiful. The engine falls silent and the ...