Sea level is currently rising at a rate of about 4mm per year. More than half of this comes from melting glaciers and ice sheets. A new scientific study shows that the rate at which ice sheets are losing ice is at the high end of what climate models...

The summer months when Greenland loses more ice than it receives in snowfall (scientifically known as the ablation season) of 2020 began on June 22. This is 10 days later than the average date for the period 1981-2019. The onset of the summer...

The summer months when Greenland loses more ice than it receives in snowfall (scientifically known as the ablation season) of 2019 began on June 13. This is very close to normal and actually one day later than the average date for the period...

This week there has been significant melting over a large area of the Greenland ice sheet. Temperatures even reached over 0°C for the second time this year at the very top of the ice sheet 3285m above sea level at Summit station where DMI operates a...

Today DMI scientists announced the start of the Greenland melt season, the second earliest in a record that stretches back to 1980. “The start of the melt season occurs on the first of three consecutive days where more than 5% of the ice sheet has...