joining with other hidden streams to form a vast drainage system that affects how fast glaciers and ice sheets flow. The study found that crevasses are expanding more quickly than previously ...

A new study of the melting of vast ice sheets ... is will this 'extra' meltwater flow in channels cause our ice sheets to flow more quickly, or more slowly, into the sea?" ...

The marine ice sheet sits on bedrock below sea level, contains glaciers that flow toward the sea and is surrounded by floating ice shelves. Outside researchers said the study represented an ...

Researchers agree that ice-sheet melt in Greenland will lead to at least several inches of global sea-level rise by the end of the century. Ashley Cooper / Getty Images In a new study, scientists ...