Greenland Ice Sheet
This small outlet glacier south of Jakobshavn Isbrae is moving ice from the interior of the ice sheet out to the ice sheet edge (top right), where the ice calves off into the ocean.
Greenland Ice Sheet
This relatively small outlet glacier is just one of hundreds (there are many much larger) that move ice from the interior of the Greenland ice sheet out to the ocean.
Greenland Ice Sheet
The many fast-moving outlet glaciers around the Greenland coast are constantly calving ice into the ocean, where the melting ice affects sea level.
Greenland Ice Sheet
The heavily crevassed ice on this small Greenland outlet glacier cascades down to the fjord water (bottom right), which is filled with icebergs and small bits of ice.
Greenland Ice Sheet
The heavily crevassed surface (extending to the distant horizon) of Jakobshavn Isbrae, one of Greenland's fastest outlet glaciers, is shown on this large iceberg that calved from the glacier's end.
Greenland Ice Sheet
In part because the large Jakobshavn Isbrae moves so quickly, it is difficult to tell the glacier ice (right and top) from the many icebergs it has calved off (center front) into the fjord.
Study: Greenland is Shrinking at Surprising Rate
Lines on this satellite image of Greenland's Helheim glacier show the positions of the glacier front between 2001 and 2005.
Glaciers Disappear in Before & After Photos
Glaciers Disappear in Before & After Photos
Small Ice Sources Pose Big Threat to Rising Seas
Acceleration and calving of the Columbia Glacier and other tidewater glaciers in the far north are a large reason glaciers and ice caps are contributing more to sea level rise this century than Greenland and Antarctica, says a new CU-Boulder study.
Greenland Glacier
A NASA-funded study finds that the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are losing mass at an accelerating pace, three times faster than that of mountain glaciers and ice caps. Here, the Store Glacier, West Greenland.
Buried Volcano Discovered in Antarctica
A British Antarctic Survey (BAS) Twin Otter airplane conducting a sub-ice radar survey.
