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A new study shows how subglacial water could threaten the stability of the Antarctic ice cap. Which could add more than two metres than currently estimated to global sea levels by 2300.
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Geneviève Pons and Jérôme Chappellaz remind us of the importance of One Planet – Polar Summit as the cryosphere is in distress.
Mirjana Binggeli
Vegetation traces found in an ice core taken nearly 60 years ago in the far north-west corner of Greenland suggest that the ice sheet had largely melted over 400,000 years ago.
Julia Hager
Two young Danish men attempt a world record by crossing the Greenland ice sheet by bicycle.
According to a recent study, the strong temperature increase in the Arctic leads to extremely high mercury concentrations in meltwater rivers in Greenland.
Scientists found toxic persistent organic compounds - the degradation products of CFC-replacement substances - in ice cores from the high Arctic.
