Green Matters on MSN1d
Scientists Detect First-Ever ‘Ice Quakes’ Under Greenland’s Rivers — But One Thing Baffled Them
These juddering 'ice quakes' were found by dropping a fiber-optic cable into a mile-deep borehole dug into Greenland ice.
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN3d
Tiny Quakes Discovered Deep Within Greenland’s Ice Sheet Could Change Sea-Level Rise Predictions, Study Suggests
While scientists once thought Greenland's ice streams flowed slowly and uniformly, new research reveals a quake-driven "stick ...
Live Science on MSN9d
Scientists record never-before-seen 'ice quakes' deep inside Greenland's frozen rivers
Quakes recorded for the first time inside Greenland's biggest frozen river, the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream, suggest this ...
BBC1mon
Greenland is getting a lot of international attention for its mineral resources – but what is hiding under the ice?
contributing to the volcanic activity which formed the island of Iceland. Today, Greenland hosts everything from Precambrian basement rocks to yesterday's glacial sediments – all of which could ...
The New York Times16d
In Greenland, the Ice Doesn’t Just Flow, It Quivers and Quakes
The field season in Greenland was almost over ... These quakes seemed to start near impurities in the ice that were deposited by volcanic eruptions, Dr. Fichtner said. Where these particles sit, the ...
Salon29d
An ancient volcano blotted out the sun, killing crops. People likely reacted by making "sun stones"
Climate scientists from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen in Bornholm analyzed ice cores from Greenland’s ice sheets and demonstrated that a major volcanic eruption ...
CNN29d
Neolithic people in Denmark sacrificed ‘sun stones’ after climate cataclysm, scientists say
Quantities of sulfate in ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica dating to about 2910 BC suggested that this cooling followed a volcanic eruption, scientists reported January 16 in the journal ...