This matters because the Greenland ice sheet is so large that if all of it melted the global sea level would rise by seven metres - around 20 feet. No one is suggesting that could happen soon. But the ...

I’m standing at the edge of the Greenland ice sheet, mesmerised by a mind-blowing scene of natural destruction. A milewide section of glacier front has fractured and is collapsing into the ocean, ...

We are edging ever closer to a disastrous tipping point in the melting and breakup of the second largest ice body on Earth after Antarctica. The extent of the resultant sea-level rise depends on what ...