A massive subglacial flood punched its way through the Greenland Ice Sheet in 2014, but it’s only now that scientists have pieced together how and why. New research reveals that a previously ...

A massive flood that breached the Greenland ice sheet in 2014 created a huge crater that is now being researched, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced on Wednesday. Approximately 90 million cubic ...

“It was so unexpected, we thought there was an issue with our data,” said Jade Bowling, senior author of the study which has turned scientific knowledge of Greenland’s ice sheet hydrology on its head.

A huge flood triggered by the rapid draining of a lake beneath the Greenland ice sheet occurred with such force that it fractured the ice above and burst out across its surface. This phenomenon, ...

Scientists were caught by surprise after discovering a massive flood of subglacial lakewater burst through Greenland’s ice sheet, spilling copious amounts of water across its surface. As detailed in a ...

An article published in Nature Geoscience on July 30th, 2025 explores an event that happened in 2014 but was only recently discovered thanks to archives of satellite images. The Greenland Ice Sheet ...

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Scientists have discovered a previously-undetected flood under the Greenland ice sheet that spilled out with such force that it burst through nearly 300 feet (91 meters) of solid ice. The phenomenon ...

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 ...

Greenland’s bedrock is shifting, rising, and sliding northwest as ancient and modern ice loss reshape the island beneath the ...

A huge flood triggered by the rapid draining of a lake beneath the Greenland ice sheet occurred with such force that it fractured the ice above and burst out across its surface. A huge flood triggered ...